Audiobooks and the Return of Storytelling

Great NY Times article by T. M. Luhrmann (a contributing opinion writer and a professor of anthropology at Stanford.) T. M. Luhrmann

Tanya Marie Luhrmann is a professor of anthropology at Stanford University and a contributing opinion writer. Her books include “Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England,” “The Good Parsi: The Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society,”  “Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry”  and “When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God.”  She received her Ph.D. the University of Cambridge, and taught at the University of California, San Diego, and then at the University of Chicago before arriving at Stanford. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. Her work focuses on the way people experience God and the supernatural in the United States and abroad.  She also studies psychiatric illness.  She is interested in the way that different ways of understanding the mind alter these profound mental experiences.