WHITTEN, Norman E., Jr.

WHITTEN, Norman E., Jr. American, b. 1937. Genres: Anthropology/ Ethnology, Cultural/Ethnic topics. Career: Washington University, St. Louis, assistant professor, associate professor, 1965-70; University of Illinois, Urbana, professor of anthropology and Latin American studies, 1970-, dept chairman, 1983-86, senior university scholar, 1992-, curator of the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures, director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. American Ethnologist, editor, 1979-84. Publications: Class, Kinship and Power in an Ecuadorian Town, 1965; Black Frontiersmen: A South American Case, 1974; Sacha Runa: Ethnicity and Adaptation of Ecuadorian Jungle Quichua, 1976; Temas sobre la Continuidad y Adaptacion Cultural Ecuatoriana, 1984; Amazonia Ecuatoriana: La Otra Cara del Progreso, 1985; (with D.S. Whitten) Art, Knowledge and Health, 1985; Sicuanga Runa: The Other Side of Development in Amazonian Ecuador, 1985; (with D.S. Whitten) From Myth to Creation: Art from Amazonian Ecuador, 1988; Pioneros Negros: La Cultura Afro-Latinoamericana del Ecuador y de Colombia, 1993; Transformaciones Culturales en la Sierra Ecuatoriana, 1993; Clase, Parentesco y Poder en un Pueblo Ecuatoriano: Los Negros de San Lorenzo, 1997; Millennial Ecuador: Critical Essays on Cultural Transformations and Socila Dynamics, 2003. EDITOR: (with J.F. Szwed) Afro-American Anthropology, 1970; Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador, 1981; (with D.S. Whitten) Imagery and Creativity: Ethnoaesthetics and Art Worlds in the Americas, 1993; (with A. Torres) Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2 vols., 1998. Address: 507 Harding Dr, Urbana, IL 61801, U.S.A. Online address: NWhitten@uiuc.edu