CONTRIBUTOR:

Emily A. Schultz

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor Emerita

DEPARTMENT:

Anthropology

INSTITUTION:

St. Cloud State University

BIOGRAPHY:

Dr. Emily Schultz is Professor of Anthropology Emerita at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota. Trained as a “four-field” anthropologist at Indiana University, she has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Cameroon and has lived and worked in Latin America. Her monograph Dialogue at the Margins (1990) uses texts by Benjamin Whorf and Mikhail Bakhtin to illuminate each other’s theories of language. For the past two decades, in conversation with philosophers of biology and progressive theoretical biologists, her scholarly publications have explored post-positivist ways in which a multifield anthropology might be understood and practiced. In this work, Developmental Systems Theory, niche construction theory, and actor network theory have played central roles. Together with Robert Lavenda, she has cowritten three anthropology textbooks.