Department of Anthropology

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Norman E Whitten Jr

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Contact

  • Office:
    Anthropology 109 Davenport Hall 607 S Mathews M/C 148 Urbana, IL 61801
  • Phone: 217-244-3514
  • Email: nwhitten@illinois.edu

Publications

Books

  • Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.
  • Whitten, Norman. Milennial Ecuador. University of Iowa Press, 2003.

Book Contributions

  • Whitten, Norman. "Esmeraldian Freedom: “with pride in the face of the sun"." Ecuador Reader. Comp. Carlos de la Torre. Ed. Steve Striffler. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.

Journal Articles

  • Whitten, Norman. "Interculturality and the Indigenization of Modernity: A View from Amazonian Ecuador.." Journal of the Society of Lowland South America 6.6 (2009):
  • "The Longue Durée of Racial Fixity and the Transformative Conjunctures of Racial Blending." Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 12.2 (2007): 356-383.