Tanya Luhrmann's interests include the social construction of psychological experience, and the way that social practice may affect even the most concrete ways in which people experience their world, particularly in the domain of what some would call the "irrational". Her current work looks at the way American evangelicals learn to experience God and at psychosis in psychiatric clients. These are very different projects, but they share an interest in the way subjective experience is interpreted and the way that socio-cultural expectations can override ordinary sensory processing and produce what an observer might cal "hallucinations".

Contact Info:

luhrmann @ stanford.edu

Phone: (650) 723-3247
Fax: (650) 725-0605

CASA, Building 110
Stanford, California 94305-2145

Personal URL: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthropology/cgi-bin/web/?q=node/73