Miller, Elmer S(chaffner)
MILLER, Elmer S(chaffner)
MILLER, Elmer S(chaffner). American, b. 1931. Genres: Anthropology/ Ethnology. Career: Mennonite Board of Missions, Elkhart, IN, missionary, 1958-63; Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, instructor, 1966-67, assistant professor, 1967-71, associate professor, 1971-80, professor of anthropology, 1980-96, professor emeritus, 1996-, department head, 1970-77, 1981-82, director of University Abroad, Rome, Italy, 1982-85, associate dean of College of Arts and Sciences, 1986-89, acting director of Institute for Languages and International Studies, 1988. Universidade de Brasilia, visiting professor, 1975; Goddard College, member of field faculty, 1975-; supervisor of instructional tours of Italy and Greece, 1982-85. Conducted field work in Argentina and Paraguay; Inter-American Foundation, Chaco Indian researcher, 1988. City of Philadelphia, member of Mayor's Science and Technology Advisory Council, 1972-75. Publications: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, 1979; (with C. Weitz) Introduction to Anthropology, 1979; Los tobas argentinos: Armonia y disonancia en una sociedad, 1979, trans. as Harmony and Dissonance in Argentine Toba Society, 1980; A Critically Annotated Bibliography of the Gran Chaco Toba, 2 vols., 1980; Nurturing Doubt: From Mennonite Missionary to Anthropologist in the Argentine Chaco, 1995; (ed. and contrib.) Peoples of the Gran Chaco, 1999. Contributor to books. Contributor to academic journals.