Special Program for Exhibit The Hidden Life of Things
- Event Date: Sunday, December 2, 2018
- Time: 1:00 pm (CST)
- Location: Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
- Cost: Free Admission
Dr. Norman Whitten, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Latin American Studies, began research with Afro-Latin Americans in the northwest coast of Ecuador in 1961, continuing with similar studies in Ecuador and Colombia through 1968. Then, with his late wife, Dorothea (Sibby) Scott Whitten he began research with the Indigenous Amazonian Canelos Quichua and Achuar Jivaroan people in 1968 and has worked with them ever since. The author and editor of many books, Norm is the president of the Sacha Runa Research Foundation, and a curator at the Spurlock Museum. He and his late wife designed and curated the Spurlock Gallery of South American Peoples, and Norm worked with Michelle Wibbelsman at the Ohio State University on The Hidden Life of Things.