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Norman Whitten

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Contact Information

109 Davenport Hall
607 S Mathews
M/C 148
Urbana, IL 61801
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Curator of Spurlock Museum

Biography

Since 1961 I have done ethnographic research in the Lowland Areas of Ecuador and Colombia, Both coastal and Amazonian. My research has focused on Afrodescendant peoples of coastal Ecuador and Colombia and Amazonian indigenous Canelos Quichua and Achuar Jivaroan peoples of Amazonian Ecuador

Research Interests

Cultural Change, Indigenous endurance, Afrodescendant endurance, ethnicity, racism. Amazonia, Andes