Exhibit Reception & Networking: The Hidden Life of Things

The Andes and Amazonia have a long history of oral traditions and cultural expression. This Global Gallery Exhibit presents Andean and Amazonian cultural artifacts as systems of literacy and epistemology that operate outside of Western emphases on the written text. The collection supports a growing curriculum on the Andes and Amazonia at OSU and is part of a developing Integrated Learning Environment for the Study of Andean and Amazonian Languages and Cultures that features activity-based and experiential pedagogies compatible with non-Western traditions and that engage prevailing forms of indigenous knowledge, power, resistance, and self-determination.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS and COLLABORATIONS

·         Center for Latin American Studies

·         Department of Spanish and Portuguese

·         Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures

·         University Libraries

o   Rare Books and Manuscripts

o   Area Studies Department

o   The Teaching and Learning Department

o   Institutional Repository Services—Knowledge Bank Center

·         OSU Digital Storytelling Program

·         ASC-Tech

·         The Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise

·         History of Art Department

·         Department of Anthropology

·         Center for Folklore Studies

·         Musicology Area, School of Music

·         Department of Arts Administration, Education & Policy

·         LiteracyStudies@OSU

·         The History of the Book Program, an initiative of LiteracyStudies@OSU

·         Humanities Institute and CLAS Working Group “Continuity and Change in the Andes and Amazonia”

·         Andean and Amazonian Studies Interdisciplinary Minor

·         OSU Andean Music Ensemble

·         Folclor Hispano Student Organization

·         Office of Diversity and Inclusion

·         Ecuadorian Consulate, Chicago

·         Sacha Runa Research Foundation

·         Title VI Federal Grant, Department of Education

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS:

·         Norman Whitten, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology & Latin America Studies, Curator of the Spurlock Museum, Senior University Scholar, and Editor of UI Press series "Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium,” at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

·         Devin Grammon, Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic Linguistics, Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellow, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

·         Luis Morató Peña, Senior Lecturer Quechua Program, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

·         Katherine Martinez,  Undergraduate Spanish Major (Class of 2016)