Jason Baird Jackson, Ph.D. (born 1969) is Professor of Folklore and Anthropology at
Indiana University Bloomington
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. He is "an advocate of open access issues and works for scholarly communications and scholarly publishing projects." At IUB, he has served as Chair of the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and as Director of the
Folklore Institute
Folklore Institute refers to the folklore studies program of Indiana University Bloomington (USA). The Folklore Institute, together with the Ethnomusicology Institute, constitute the larger Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. The Departmen ...
. According to the Journal of American Folklore, "Jason Baird Jackson establishes himself as one of the foremost scholars in American Indian studies today."
Career
Jackson was Curator of Anthropology at the
Gilcrease Museum in
Tulsa, Oklahoma
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(1995–2000) and Assistant Curator of Ethnology at the
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
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in Norman, Oklahoma (2000–2004). He remains a research associate at SNOMNH.
A noted scholar in the tradition of
Boasian anthropology
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Overview
Boasian anthropology was based on the four-field model of anthropology uniting the fields of cultural anthropology, linguistic ...
, Dr. Jackson's research interests include the following areas: (1) folklore and ethnology (intellectual and cultural property issues, folklore and folklife, material culture, religion, ritual, cultural change, ethnohistory, music and dance, ethnobotany, ethnomedicine, social organization, social theory, history of folkloristics and anthropology), (2) linguistic anthropology (verbal art, oratory, language shift, language ideologies, theories of performance, language and culture), (3) curatorship (community collaboration, exhibitions, collections management), (4) American and native American studies (Eastern North America).
Dr. Jackson's ethnographic and historical work has focused on the life of the
Yuchi, a Native American people residing today in Oklahoma, USA. He has published and edited several books on Native American topics, including ''Yuchi Ceremonial Life: Performance, Meaning and Tradition in a Contemporary American Indian Community''. He has also published numerous articles based on his studies of Native American ethnography and folklore. Dr. Jackson has additionally spent time as an editor of the
Journal of Folklore Research.
Dr. Jackson is the founding editor of
Museum Anthropology Review
''Museum Anthropology Review'' is a peer-reviewed gold open access academic journal focusing on research in material culture studies, museum-based scholarship, and the study of museums in society. In addition to anthropology, it covers the fields o ...
, the first open access, peer-reviewed journal for on the subject of
Museum Anthropology
Museum anthropology is a domain of scholarship and professional practice in the discipline of anthropology.
Characteristics
A distinctive characteristic of museum anthropology is that it cross-cuts anthropology's sub-fields (archaeology, cultural ...
. He is also the principal for the
Open Folklore Project tasked with "developing tools and resources for open access within Folklore studies." He also serves on the editorial board for
Anthropological Quarterly
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and is one of the 2017 Visiting Faculty for the
Smithsonian Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology
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, a position he has also previously held.
In June 2001, Dr. Jackson was awarded a Post-Ph.D. Research Grant from the
Wenner-Gren
Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren (5 June 1881 – 24 November 1961) was a Swedish entrepreneur and one of the wealthiest men in the world during the 1930s.
Early life
He was born on 5 June 1881 in Uddevalla, a town on the west coast of Sweden. He w ...
Foundation "to aid archival and ethnographic field research on the role that social dance, musical performance, and cultural performances more generally, play in the network connecting the Woodland Indian communities of central and eastern Oklahoma into a regional system of exchange."
Representative works
Google Scholar Citation Index for Jason Baird Jackson (see citation)
*2003. ''Yuchi Ceremonial Life: Performance, Meaning and Tradition in a Contemporary American Indian Community''. Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
*2004. “Recontextualizing Revitalization: Cosmology and Cultural Stability in the Adoption of Peyotism among the Yuchi,” In ''Reassessing Revitalization: Perspectives from North America and the Pacific Islands''. Michael Harkin, editor. pp. 183–205. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
*2004. Yuchi, pp. 415–428, in Handbook of North American Indians, (Raymond D.Fogelson, ed.), Vol. 14, Southeast. Smithsonian Institution: Washington DC.
*2004. Social Organization, pp. 697–706, in Handbook of North American Indians,(Raymond D. Fogelson, ed.), Vol. 14, Southeast. Smithsonian Institution: Washington DC. (with
Greg Urban
Greg Urban is an American anthropologist who specializes in indigenous peoples of South America and on general theoretical problems in linguistic and cultural anthropology. Much of his work has been oriented toward the development of a discourse-ce ...
*2004. Mythology and Folklore, pp. 707–719, in Handbook of North American Indians, (Ed. Raymond D. Fogelson), Vol. 14, Southeast. Smithsonian Institution: Washington DC. (with Greg Urban)
*2005. Yuchi Ceremonial Life: Performance, Meaning, and Tradition in a Contemporary American Indian Community. University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln, Nebraska, and London.
*2006. “On the Review of Digital Exhibitions,” ''Museum Anthropology'', 29(1):1-4.
*2008. “Traditionalization in Ceremonial Ground Oratory: Native American Speechmaking in Eastern Oklahoma,” in ''Midwestern Folklore''. 34(2):3-16.
References
External links
IUB Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology WebsiteJason Baird Jackson's Professional Website
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American folklorists
American anthropologists
Living people
1969 births
Directors of museums in the United States