Hi, this is a question that might be best answered by the anthropologists here... You know Tanya Luhrman's "Persuasions of the Witch's Craft"? Well, I know that many, or is it most, of the Witches and Magicians that she studied felt that she hadn't represented them corectly, or that she was sarcastic or otherwise betrayed them.
Is this the only complaint about her methods / book? How is it seen academically? Is it considered to have been done 'correctly'? In other words, was her only 'crime' to - in journalistic terms - burn her sources? Or was there something else wrong with or objectionable about her work?
(I used to own the book, lent it out, never got it back, and I've just re-ordered it from amazon).
~Caroline.
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