[Lasa] Dorothea "Sibby" Scott Whitten fallecio el 8 de agosto, 2011

[Michelle Wibbelsman]

Estimados colegas,



Comparto con ustedes esta triste noticia de la muerte de Dorothea "Sibby"
Scott Whitten, quien falleció el dia lunes, 8 de agosto, 2011 en su hogar en
Urbana, Illinois. Le sobrevive su esposo, Norman Whitten, Jr., su hermano,
una sobrina y un sobrino.



Como muchos de ustedes saben, Sibby y Norm dedicaron mas de cuatro décadas
de estudio a los pueblos afro-ecuatorianos, canelos quichua, achuar jivaroan
y quichuas de la sierra en el Ecuador. Visitaron el pais por primera vez en
1963. Regresaron en 1964 y 1965, y empezando en 1968 mantuvieron estadías de
3-13 meses a la vez en el Ecuador todos los años hasta el 2008.


Sibby influyó enormemente en el desarrollo de estudios etnoestéticos y en la
promoción de artistas y artesanos indígenas ecuatorianos. Nos hará una falta
inmensa.



Más abajo incluyo el anuncio de su muerte que se publicó en el periódico de
Urbana.

 Aparece en inglés pero contiene información sobre sus logros y sus
publicaciones más importantes.


 Atentamente,

Michelle Wibbelsman




Dorothea “Sibby” Scott Whitten, 80, of Urbana, passed away in her sleep at
her home at 8:11 a.m., Monday, August 8, 2011.  Graveside services will be
held at 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at Woodlawn Cemetery, Urbana.
The Rev. Ann Alley will officiate.



Mrs.Whitten was born October 30, 1930 in Fairmont, West Virginia to parents
Henry and Dorothea (Gunnerson) Scott.  She married Norman Whitten, Jr. on
August 2, 1962 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He survives. Also surviving
are one brother; Henry Scott, Jr. (Nan), of Richmond, Virginia, one nephew,
and one niece.



Sibby received her Bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary in
Virginia, then receieved her Master’s degree from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sibby was a sociologist and worked for the Spurlock
Museum as a curator for ten years and as a Research Associate in the Center
for Latin American and Carribbean Studies at the University of Illinois.



Sibby came here in 1970 with her husband. She first visited Ecuador in 1963,
returned in 1964 and 1965 while living and doing research in Colombia with
Norman. After two summers of research on Afro-Canadian people in Nova
Scotia, Sibby, with her husband, returned to Ecuador where they spent from
three months to 13 months at a time working with Canelos Quichua and Achuar
Jivaroan indigenous people every year until 2008. In the 1980s Sibby took
the lead in publication with Norman, and, in conjunction with major museum
exhibitions wrote *From Myth to Creation: Art from Amazonian Ecuador* and
edited *Imagery and Creativity: Ethnoaesthetics and Art Worlds in the
Americas.* More recently, she collaborated with Norman in three books,
contributing a major article on Amazonian and indigenous art in each:
*Millennial
Ecuador: Critical Essays on Cultural Transformation and Social Dynamics*, *Puyo
Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia*,* *and* Histories of the
Present: People and Power in Ecuador*.



In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Spurlock
Museum Whitten Gallery Fund, University of Illinois Foundation. Condolences
may be offered online at www.renner-wikoffchapel.com.

-- 
Michelle Wibbelsman, Ph.D.

Research Fellow -- Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
The University of Texas at Austin

mwibbelsman at gmail.com
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