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Aníbal Buitrón Cháves

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Aníbal Buitrón Cháves was an anthropologist in Ecuador. He was awarded a Latin American and Caribbean Guggenheim Fellowship in 1949. He collaborated with John Collier Jr. in Otavalo, Ecuador and they published The Awakening Valley.[1]

Buitrón studied at the University of Chicago. He did a short ethnological study of the Huallaga Valley.

Bibliography

  • Ethnological Survey of the Valley of the Rio Huallaga, Peru, UESCO 1948
  • Indios, blancos y mestizos en Otavalo, Ecuador with Barbara Salisbury de Buitron 1952
  • The Awakening Valley: A Photographic Record of the Indians of the Otavalo Valley in Ecuador (El Valle del Amencer) with John Collier Jr.
  • Taita Imbabura: vida indígena en los Andes (Taita Imbabura: Indian life in the Andes) 1964
  • How Progress Came to Huagrapampa; An Experiment in Community Development (Drawings)
  • Community Development in Latin America; A Practical Guide for Community Development Workers, translated into English by Barbara S. Buitron 1966
  • Community development in Latin America: a practical guide for community development workers East African Literature Bureau, 1966

References

  1. ^ John Collier Jr. 79, a teacher writer and photographer Obituary, March 5, 1992 New York Times