Whitten, Norman E.
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- Summary
- Norman E. Whitten Jr. is an American cultural anthropologist who is professor emeritus of anthropology and Latin American studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and curator of the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures. He is known for books based on his anthropological field work and his research on the Afro-Latin and Indigenous peoples of the West Coast rainforest and upper Amazon Rain forest, most notably the Black population and Canelos Quichua and Achuar Peoples. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5]
- Born
- 1937 [2]
- 1937-05-23 [4]
- Birth Place
- Orange [4]
- Country
- United States [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- anthropologist [4]
- curator [4]
- Profession
- Ethnologe [2]
- Employer
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign [4]
- Educated at
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [4]
- Colgate University [4]
- Country of Education
- United States [4]
- Archives at
- University of Illinois Archives [4]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [4]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Wikidata
- 5. Library of Congress
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