Jason Baird Jackson (born 1969) is an American anthropologist who is Professor of Folklore and Anthropology at

Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington, Indiana University, IU, IUB, or Indiana) is a public university, public research university in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. It is the flagship university, flagship campus of Indiana Univer ...

. 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 Gilcrease Museum, also known as the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, is a museum northwest of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma housing the world's largest, most comprehensive collection of art of the American West, as well as a gr ...

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(1995–2000) and Assistant Curator of Ethnology at the

Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is the officially designated natural history museum for the State of Oklahoma, located on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. The museum was founded in 1899 by an act of the Oklahoma Terri ...

in Norman, Oklahoma (2000–2004). He remains a research associate at SNOMNH. A scholar in the tradition of

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, 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). Jackson's ethnographic and historical work has focused on the life of the

Yuchi The Yuchi people are a Native American tribe based in Oklahoma, though their original homeland was in the southeastern United States. In the 16th century, the Yuchi lived in the eastern Tennessee River valley. By the late 17th century, they had ...

, 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. Jackson has spent time as an editor of the

Journal of Folklore Research The ''Journal of Folklore Research: An International Journal of Folklore and Ethnomusicology'' is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on folklore, folklife, and ethnomusicology. It was established in 1942 and is published ...

. Jackson is the founding editor of Museum Anthropology Review, the first open access, peer-reviewed journal for on the subject of Museum Anthropology. 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

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and is one of the 2017 Visiting Faculty for the Smithsonian Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology, a position he has also previously held. In June 2001, Jackson was awarded a Post-Ph.D. Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren 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- ...

*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 Website

Jason Baird Jackson's Professional Website
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