Jean E Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean E Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean E |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 701 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Becoming Indians: The Politics of Tukanoan Ethnicity
Gestionando el multiculturalismo. Indigenidad y lucha por los derechos en Colombia
Gestionando el multiculturalismo examina la evolución del movimiento indígena colombiano a lo largo de sus más de cuarenta años de investigación y trabajo de campo, ofreciendo una visión inusualmente desarrollada y matizada de cómo las comunidades y activistas indígenas cambiaron con el tiempo, así como de cómo ella, la etnógrafa y la académica, evolucionó a su vez. La historia de cómo comenzó la organización indígena, encontró su voz, estableció…
Managing Multiculturalism: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia
Amazonian Ethnography and the Politics of Renewal
Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America . Edward F. Fischer
Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Indigenous Movements
The four books under review address several of the most compelling issues that have arisen following the democratic transitions of the 1980s and 1990s in Latin American counties with indigenous populations. The main concerns shared by the authors, all anthropologists, are indigenous mobilizing, indigenous-state relations, and official multiculturalism. The reforms that sought to bring marginalized indigenous populations into the political process…
Traditional, transnational, and cosmopolitan: The Colombian Yanacona look to the past and to the future
In this article, we analyze a crisis that resulted when a vehicular road was illegally cut through a corner of southern Colombia's San Agustín Archaeological Park, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage site, by a nearby reindigenizing Yanacona community and its neighboring campesino allies. In numerous meetings addressing the crisis, Yanacona leaders, performing on a transnational and cosmopolitan stage, have asserted and justified their position by…
The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law between the Global and the Local
Human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice globally. But how do human rights work? What do they do? Drawing on anthropological studies of human rights work from around the world, this book examines human rights in practice. It shows how groups and organizations mobilize human rights language in a variety of local settings, often differently from those imagined by human rights law itself. The case studies reveal the contradiction…
Indigenous Movements in Latin America, 1992–2004: Controversies, Ironies, New Directions
This review examines literature on indigenous movements in Latin America from 1992 to 2004. It addresses ethnic identity and ethnic activism, in particular the reindianization processes occurring in indigenous communities throughout the region. We explore the impact that states and indigenous mobilizing efforts have had on each other, as well as the role of transnational nongovernmental organizations and para-statal organizations, neoliberalism m…
Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Movements in Latin America and the World
Langer, Erik D. (Ed.) with Elena Munoz. Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2003. xxix + 220 pp. including references. $19.95 paper. Maybur
Stigma, liminality, and chronic pain: Mind-body borderlands
In this article, I employ the concept of "liminality" to answer the question, why is pain, something invisible and experienced by everyone, so often stigmatizing in its chronic form? Various authors' work on liminality argues that "betwixt and between," ambiguous beings are seen by those around them to threaten prevailing definitions of the social order. I show that certain features of chronic pain result in the perception of sufferers as transgr…
Contested Discourses of Authority in Colombian National Indigenous Politics: The 1996 Summer Takeovers
3. Contested Discourses of Authority in Colombian National Indigenous Politics:The 1996 Summer Takeovers was published in Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America on page 81.
Introduction: Studying Indigenous Activism in Latin America
Irving Goldman (1911-2002): A Brief Remembrance
Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America
Acta Report Criticizes Professors
Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain
Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain. Susan Greenhalgh. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. ix. 371 pp., tables, figures, notes, references, index
The politics of ethnographic practice in the Colombian vaupés
The current situation in Colombia's Vaupés region involves a complicated mosaic of various change agents, colonists, and indigenous communities. This paper discusses the role of the anthropologist investigating ethnic nationalism in such a setting, asking questions about: (a) the best position to take with respect to helping local communities carve out geographical and cultural space for themselves; (b) how best to help Indian organizations, when…
The Impact of Recent National Legislation in the Vaupes Region of Colombia
The Impact of Recent National Legislation in the Vaupés Region of Colombia
This paper analyzes Indian and non‐Indian reactions in the Vaupés region of Colombia to the 1991 Colombian Constitution and subsequent legislation, specifically reactions to the on‐going process of converting the Vaupés resguardo (a 3‐millionhectare territory collectively owned by the region's Indians) into one or more “indigenous territorial entities” (ETIs), a new form of political‐administrative unit. The paper argues that despite apparently s…
Hippocrates in the Bush
The A. looks at the possible negative consequences of anthropologists introducing medicines during their research in communities that lack regular access to clinics and pharmacies. He argues that such communities often feel worse off after seeing efficacious medicines that are not available after the anthropologists departs. An example of snakebite in the Colombian Vaupes in 1970 illustrates this point
Intellectual Property Rights for Indigenous Peoples: A Source Book. Tom Greaves, ed
Preserving Indian Culture: Shaman Schools and Ethno-Education in the Vaupés, Colombia
Los pueblos Tucano de la región del Vaupés, en el sureste de Colombia, se han estado movilizando para preservar su cultura e historia durante unos 20 años. Este artículo examina las reacciones de un grupo de maestros de escuela primaria tukano ante una ejemplo específico de esfuerzos de revitalización cultural: un intento de preservar la medicina local indígena utilizando métodos pedagógicos occidentales. Aunque los acontecimientos descritos en e…
Culture, Genuine and Spurious: The politics of Indianness in the Vaupés, Colombia
In this article I use Edward Sapir's (1924) famous phrase as a theme to explore how Tukanoans of Colombia's Northwest Amazon are learning to change their notions of their own history and culture to achieve a better fit with received wisdom about Indianness. Situated in a highly politicized context, this process involves local and national Indian rights organizations and sympathetic international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). I also briefl…
The Rashomon approach to dealing with chronic pain
Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America
Culture, Genuine and Spurious: The politics of Indianness in the Vaupés, Colombia
In this article I use Edward Sapir's (1924) famous phrase as a theme to explore how Tukanoans of Colombia's Northwest Amazon are learning to change their notions of their own history and culture to achieve a better fit with received wisdom about Indianness. Situated in a highly politicized context, this process involves local and national Indian rights organizations and sympathetic international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). I also briefl…
The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia
Jean E. Jackson's *The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia* examines the complex social organization of the Bará, or Fish People, in the Northwest Amazon. This group participates in a unique network of sixteen exogamous, multilingual communities, requiring marriage outside both one's community and language group. Jackson explores how this system, which defies traditional anthropological classifications of '…
Stigma, liminality, and chronic pain: Mind-body borderlands
In this article, I employ the concept of "liminality" to answer the question, why is pain, something invisible and experienced by everyone, so often stigmatizing in its chronic form? Various authors' work on liminality argues that "betwixt and between," ambiguous beings are seen by those around them to threaten prevailing definitions of the social order. I show that certain features of chronic pain result in the perception of sufferers as transgr…
Preserving Indian Culture: Shaman Schools and Ethno-Education in the Vaupés, Colombia
Los pueblos Tucano de la región del Vaupés, en el sureste de Colombia, se han estado movilizando para preservar su cultura e historia durante unos 20 años. Este artículo examina las reacciones de un grupo de maestros de escuela primaria tukano ante una ejemplo específico de esfuerzos de revitalización cultural: un intento de preservar la medicina local indígena utilizando métodos pedagógicos occidentales. Aunque los acontecimientos descritos en e…
Traditional, transnational, and cosmopolitan: The Colombian Yanacona look to the past and to the future
In this article, we analyze a crisis that resulted when a vehicular road was illegally cut through a corner of southern Colombia's San Agustín Archaeological Park, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage site, by a nearby reindigenizing Yanacona community and its neighboring campesino allies. In numerous meetings addressing the crisis, Yanacona leaders, performing on a transnational and cosmopolitan stage, have asserted and justified their position by…
Deja Entendu: The Liminal Qualities of Anthropological Fieldnotes
Recent Ethnography of Indigenous Northern Lowland South America
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
The Rashomon approach to dealing with chronic pain
The politics of ethnographic practice in the Colombian vaupés
The current situation in Colombia's Vaupés region involves a complicated mosaic of various change agents, colonists, and indigenous communities. This paper discusses the role of the anthropologist investigating ethnic nationalism in such a setting, asking questions about: (a) the best position to take with respect to helping local communities carve out geographical and cultural space for themselves; (b) how best to help Indian organizations, when…
The Meaning and Message of Symbolic Sexual Violence in Tukanoan Ritual
Tukanoan rituals involving symbolic physical violence towards women (metaphorical gang rape, ceremonial bride capture, and the death threat represented by Yurupari flutes) are analyzed in the context of Tukanoan social structure. It is argued that Tukanoan female symbols represent not only woman but also heterosexuality and affinity, and that since all three categories challenge Tukanoan cosmology's premise of male centrality, self-sufficiency, a…
Managing Multiculturalism: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia
The Way of the Dead Indians: Guajiro Myths and Symbols
Intellectual Property Rights for Indigenous Peoples: A Source Book. Tom Greaves, ed
The impact of the state on small-scale societies
Bara Zero Generation Terminology and Marriage
This paper deals with the meaning and of Bara zero generation terminology as it relates to Vaupes social and marriage in the central Northwest Amazon.' The terminology is examined in terms of three approaches to kinship semantics. The first-a genealogical approach-is concerned with Bara terms as designators of classes of types. The second approach, which is associated with alliance theory, stresses the dichotomy, found in systems which are basica…
Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain
Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain. Susan Greenhalgh. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. ix. 371 pp., tables, figures, notes, references, index
Hippocrates in the Bush
The A. looks at the possible negative consequences of anthropologists introducing medicines during their research in communities that lack regular access to clinics and pharmacies. He argues that such communities often feel worse off after seeing efficacious medicines that are not available after the anthropologists departs. An example of snakebite in the Colombian Vaupes in 1970 illustrates this point
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Elaine Scarry
Audiovisuals Reviews: Xinguana: Aborigines of South America . Produced by Vision Associates
Recent Ethnography of Indigenous Northern Lowland South America
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Bara Zero Generation Terminology and Marriage
This paper deals with the meaning and of Bara zero generation terminology as it relates to Vaupes social and marriage in the central Northwest Amazon.' The terminology is examined in terms of three approaches to kinship semantics. The first-a genealogical approach-is concerned with Bara terms as designators of classes of types. The second approach, which is associated with alliance theory, stresses the dichotomy, found in systems which are basica…
Carib‐Speaking Indians: Culture, Society and Language. Ellen B. Basso
The fish people: Linguistic exogamy and Tukanoan identity in northwest Amazonia
Woman the Gatherer . Frances Dahlberg Maidens, Meal and Money: Capitalism and the Domestic Community . Claude Meillassoux Female Power and Male Dominance: On the Origins of Sexual Inequality . Peggy R…
The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia
Jean E. Jackson's *The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia* examines the complex social organization of the Bará, or Fish People, in the Northwest Amazon. This group participates in a unique network of sixteen exogamous, multilingual communities, requiring marriage outside both one's community and language group. Jackson explores how this system, which defies traditional anthropological classifications of '…
The impact of the state on small-scale societies
Cultural/Ethnology: Drama and Power in a Hunting Society: The Selk'nam of Tierra del Fuego
The Ona People: Life and Death in Tierra del Fuego. 1977. A film by Anne Chapma . and Ana Montes de Gonzalez
The Way of the Dead Indians: Guajiro Myths and Symbols
Is there a way to talk about making culture without making enemies
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Elaine Scarry
Deja Entendu: The Liminal Qualities of Anthropological Fieldnotes
The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes
The Meaning and Message of Symbolic Sexual Violence in Tukanoan Ritual
Tukanoan rituals involving symbolic physical violence towards women (metaphorical gang rape, ceremonial bride capture, and the death threat represented by Yurupari flutes) are analyzed in the context of Tukanoan social structure. It is argued that Tukanoan female symbols represent not only woman but also heterosexuality and affinity, and that since all three categories challenge Tukanoan cosmology's premise of male centrality, self-sufficiency, a…
To Square with Genesis: Causal Statements and Shamanic Ideas in Wayapi. Alan TOR-Maid CAMPBELL
The Rashomon approach to dealing with chronic pain
Intellectual Property Rights for Indigenous Peoples: A Source Book. Tom Greaves, ed
Preserving Indian Culture: Shaman Schools and Ethno-Education in the Vaupés, Colombia
Los pueblos Tucano de la región del Vaupés, en el sureste de Colombia, se han estado movilizando para preservar su cultura e historia durante unos 20 años. Este artículo examina las reacciones de un grupo de maestros de escuela primaria tukano ante una ejemplo específico de esfuerzos de revitalización cultural: un intento de preservar la medicina local indígena utilizando métodos pedagógicos occidentales. Aunque los acontecimientos descritos en e…
Culture, Genuine and Spurious: The politics of Indianness in the Vaupés, Colombia
In this article I use Edward Sapir's (1924) famous phrase as a theme to explore how Tukanoans of Colombia's Northwest Amazon are learning to change their notions of their own history and culture to achieve a better fit with received wisdom about Indianness. Situated in a highly politicized context, this process involves local and national Indian rights organizations and sympathetic international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). I also briefl…
The Impact of Recent National Legislation in the Vaupes Region of Colombia
The Impact of Recent National Legislation in the Vaupés Region of Colombia
This paper analyzes Indian and non‐Indian reactions in the Vaupés region of Colombia to the 1991 Colombian Constitution and subsequent legislation, specifically reactions to the on‐going process of converting the Vaupés resguardo (a 3‐millionhectare territory collectively owned by the region's Indians) into one or more “indigenous territorial entities” (ETIs), a new form of political‐administrative unit. The paper argues that despite apparently s…
Hippocrates in the Bush
The A. looks at the possible negative consequences of anthropologists introducing medicines during their research in communities that lack regular access to clinics and pharmacies. He argues that such communities often feel worse off after seeing efficacious medicines that are not available after the anthropologists departs. An example of snakebite in the Colombian Vaupes in 1970 illustrates this point
The politics of ethnographic practice in the Colombian vaupés
The current situation in Colombia's Vaupés region involves a complicated mosaic of various change agents, colonists, and indigenous communities. This paper discusses the role of the anthropologist investigating ethnic nationalism in such a setting, asking questions about: (a) the best position to take with respect to helping local communities carve out geographical and cultural space for themselves; (b) how best to help Indian organizations, when…
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