WSU Anthropology Colloquium: Dr. Tanya Luhrmann

Cross-cultural anthropologist and public media commentator Dr. Tanya Luhrmann, from Stanford University, will be speaking on Thursday, April 26, at 4:10 p.m. in College Hall 125.          

Talk Titled: “Is the shaman schizophrenic, after all? How religious practice may change psychotic experience”.

Tanya Marie Luhrmann is the Watkins University Professor at Stanford University.  Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications. She is the author of When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God.

Contact information: Dept. of Anthropology, 509-335-3441.

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