When was the last time she wrote about Wicca or Western Esotericism?
I've, personally, heard academics question her involvement...
Al
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From: "Sabina Magliocco" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Persuasions of the Witch's Craft
> I'm afraid I have to disagree with Al, who wrote:
>
> Apparently a number of scholars felt she got too personally involved
>>and lost her objectivity.
>>
>> You know she won't have anything to do with this field of study now,
>> right?
>
> Luhrmann's study was fairly well-received by academic anthropologists. I
> don't recall reviews attacking her objectivity. She has not left this
> field of study at all, if what you mean by that is the anthropological
> study of religion; in fact, she went on to produce a study of American
> psychiatry as a kind of religion, and a study of Hindu religiosity and
> ritual in India. She is one of the most highly regarded anthropologists
> of religion in the US; she holds a tenured professorship at the University
> of Chicago, a bastion of great anthropological scholarship; she chaired
> the 2004 American Anthropological Association meetings in Atlanta; and she
> was head of the Anthropology of Religion subsection of the AAA. So her
> study of Witchcraft has hardly damaged her career or reputation.
>
> Please note that I am not justifying her research ethics. In these
> post-"Darkness in Eldorado" days, I believe they would be held to higher
> scrutiny by her peers; but PotWC was published in 1989.
>
> BB,
> Sabina
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