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JEAN JACKSON | Publications

MONOGRAPHS AND EDITED BOOKS

2002   Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation and the State in Latin America. Kay B. Warren and Jean E. Jackson, eds. Austin, University of Texas Press. 294 pp.
2000   “Camp Pain”: Talking with Chronic Pain Patients. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 281 pp.
1983   The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Studies in Social Anthropology. 283 pp.

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

2003   "La crisis en Colombia: Consecuencias para los Pueblos Indígenas." In Alvaro Camacho, ed., El conflicto colombiano y su impacto en los países Andinos. Bogotá: Centro de Estudios Socioculturales e Internacionales, Ediciones Uniandes.
2002   “Translating the Pain Experience.” In Tullio Maranhão and Bernhard Streck, eds., Translation and Ethnography: The Anthropological Challenge of Intercultural Understanding. Tucson: University of Arizona Press: 172-194.
2002   “Caught in the Crossfire: Colombia’s indigenous peoples during the 1990s.” In David Maybury-Lewis, ed., Identities in Conflict: Indigenous peoples and Latin American States, Harvard University Press: 107-134.
2002   "Contested discourses of authority in Colombian National Indigenous politics: the 1996 summer takeovers." In Kay B. Warren and Jean E. Jackson, eds., Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation and the State in Latin America. Austin, University of Texas Press: 81-122. .
2002   "Introduction." Co-authored with Kay Warren. In Kay B. Warren and Jean E. Jackson, eds., Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation and the State in Latin America. Austin, University of Texas Press: 1-46.
2002   “Die Indianischen Gemeinden Kolumbiens und der Krieg.” In Doris Kurella, ed., Amazonas-Indianer: LebensRaume, LebensRituale, LebensRechte, Stuttgart: Reimer: 267-278.
2002   “Treinta años estudiando el Vaupés: Lecciones y reflexiones.” In Carlos Franky, Tomás Defler, y Carlos Zárate, eds., Imani Mundo: Estudios en la Amazonía Colombiana. University of the Amazon, Leticia, and Uniblibos, Bogotá, Colombia: 373-396.
 
 
1997   Entries on “Fieldwork,” “Fieldnotes,” “Participant-observation,” and “Informants” in Thomas Barfield, ed., The Dictionary of Anthropology. Malden: Blackwell Publishers: pp. 188-190, 262, 348.
1996   “Coping with the Dilemmas of Affinity and Female Sexuality: Male Rebirth in the Central Northwest Amazon,” in Warren Shapiro and Uli Linke, eds., Denying Biology: Essays on Pseudo-Procreation. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, pp. 89-128.
1996   “Hippocrates in the Bush.” In Janet M. Chernela and Jeffrey Ehrenreich, eds, special issue on “Healing and the Body Politic: Dilemmas of Doctoring in Ethnographic Fieldwork.” Anthropological Quarterly, 69, 3: 120-123.
1996   “The Impact of Recent National Legislation on Tukanoan Communities in the Vaupés Region of Southeastern Colombia. In Journal of Latin American Anthropology 1, 2: 120-151. Published in Spanish: “Impacto de la reciente legislación nacional en la región colombiana del Vaupés,” in María Lucía Sotomayor, ed., Modernidad, Identidad, y Desarrollo. Santafé de Bogotá, Instituto Colombiano de Antropología: 287-314.
1995   “Preserving Indian Culture: Shaman Schools and Ethno-education in the Vaupés, Colombia.” Cultural Anthropology 10, 3: 302-329.
1995   “Culture, Genuine and Spurious: the Politics of Indianness in the Vaupés, Colombia.” American Ethnologist, 22, 1: 3-27.
1994   “The Rashomon Approach to Dealing with Chronic Pain.” Social Science and Medicine, 38, 2: 823-833.
1994a   “Becoming Indians: The Politics of Tukanoan Ethnicity.” In Amazonian Indians: From Prehistory to the Present: Anthropological Perspectives, Anna Roosevelt, ed., Tucson: University of Arizona Press: pp. 383-406.
1994b   “Chronic Pain and the Tension between the Body as Subject and Object,” in Thomas Csordas, ed., Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 201-228.
1993a   “El Concepto de ‘Nación Indígena’: Algunos Ejemplos en las Américas,” in Carlos Uribe, ed., La Construcción de Las Américas (Memorias del VI Congreso de Antropología en Colombia). Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes: 218-242.
1993b   “Vaupés Indigenous Rights Organizing and the Emerging Ethnic Self.” In Jonathan Hill, ed., Anthropological Discourses and the Expression of Personhood in South American Inter-ethnic Relations. South American Indian Studies 3, Bennington: Bennington College: 28-39.
1992   “‘After a While No One Believes You’: Real and Unreal Chronic Pain." In M.J. Good, P. Brodwin, A. Kleinman, and B. Good, eds, Pain and Human Experience: Anthropological Perspectives on the Lived Worlds of Chronic Pain Patients in North America. Berkeley: University of California Press: 138-168.
1992   “The Meaning and Message of Symbolic Sexual Violence in Tukanoan Ritual.” Anthropological Quarterly, 65, 1: 1-18.
1991   “Being and Becoming an Indian in the Vaupés.” In Nation-State and Indian in Latin America, G. Urban and J. Sherzer, eds., Austin: University of Texas Press: 131-55.
1991   “Rituales Tukano de Violencia Sexual.” Revista Colombiana de Antropología, 28: 25-52.
1991   “Hostile Encounters between Nukak and Tukanoans and Changing Ethnic Identity in the Vaupés, Colombia.” The Journal of Ethnic Studies, 19, 2: 17-39.
1990   “‘I am a Fieldnote’: Fieldnotes as a Symbol of Professional Identity.” In Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology, Roger Sanjek, ed., Ithaca: Cornell University Press: 3-33.
1990   “`Déjà Entendu': The Liminal Qualities of Anthropological Fieldnotes.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 13, 1: 8-43 Reprinted in John Van Maanen, ed., Representation in Ethnography, London: Sage, 1995: 36-78.
1989   “Is There a Way to Talk about Making Culture without Making Enemies?” Dialectical Anthropology, Vol 14, 2: 127-144. Reprinted in Fernando Santos Granero, ed., Globalización y cambio en la Amazonía indígena. FLACSO, Biblioteca Abya-Yala, Quito, Ecuador, 1996, pp. 439-472.
1988   “Gender Relations in the Northwest Amazon.” Antropológica, 70: 17-38 (published 1991).
1986   “On Trying to be an Amazon,” in Tony Whitehead and Mary Ellen Conaway, eds., Self, Sex and Gender in Cross-cultural Fieldwork. Urbana: University of Illinois Press: 263-74.
1984   “Traducciones Competitivas del Evangelio en el Vaupés, Colombia” (“Competing Translations of Christianity: Missionaries in the Vaupés, Colombia.”) América Indígena. XLIV, 1: 49-94.
1984   “The Impact of the State on Small-Scale Societies.” Studies in Comparative International Development, XIX, 2, Summer: 3-32.
1983   “‘Traditional’ Ethnic Boundaries in the Central Northwest Amazon,” in Kenneth Kensinger, ed., Working Papers on South American Indians: Borders and Peripheries in Lowland South America, Vol. 4. Bennington: Bennington College: 21-28.
1983   “Vaupés Marriage Practices,” in Kenneth Kensinger, ed., Marriage Practices in Lowland South America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press: 156-79.
1977   “Bará Zero-generation Terminology and Marriage.” Ethnology XVI, 1, January: 83-104.
1976   “Vaupés Marriage: A Network System in the Northwest Amazon,” in C. Smith, ed., Regional Analysis, Volume II: Social Systems. New York: Academic Press: 65-93.
1975   “Recent Ethnography of Indigenous Northern Lowland South America,” in B. Siegel, ed., Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 4. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews: 307-340.
1974   “Language Identity of the Colombian Vaupés Indians,” in R. Bauman and J. Sherzer, eds., Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking. New York: Cambridge University Press: 50-64. Translated as “Identidad lingüística de los índios Colombianos del Vaupés,” In Lenguaje y sociedad, Centro de Traducciones Univalle, Cali, Colombia, 1983: 379-398.
1971   “Childspacing in a Highland Guatemala Community,” (with Clifford R. Barnett and Howard M. Cann), in S. Polgar, ed., Culture and Population: A Collection of Current Studies, Monograph 9. Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Schenkman Publishing Company Cambridge, MA: 139-148.

BOOK REVIEWS

2003
In Press 		  Review of Diane M. Nelson, A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala; Cultural Dynamics.
2002   Review of Susan Greenhalgh, Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain. University of California Press. American Ethnologist 29, 2: 459-461
1997   Review of Emerson, Fretz and Shaw, Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 185, 11: 708-709.
1996   Review of Anderson, R.T. et al., The Puzzle of Pain. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 11, 2.
1995   Review of Tom Greaves, ed., Intellectual Property Rights for Indigenous Peoples: A Source Book. American Anthropologist, 97, 3: 594.
1993   Review of Alan Campbell: To Square with Genesis: Causal Statements and Shamanic Ideas in Wayapi. American Ethnologist 20, 3: 632-633.
1993   Review of Joanne Rappaport, The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes. Hispanic American Historical Review 72, 1: 112-113.
1990   Review of Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 4, 4: 461-463.
1988   Review of M. Perrin, The Way of the Dead Indians: Guajiro Myths and Symbols. Man, 23, 3: 578-580.
1985-1986   Review of Kenneth Kensinger, ed., The Sibling Relationship in Lowland South America. Society for Latin American Anthropology Newsletter 3: 9.
1985   Review of Anne Chapman, Drama and Power in a Hunting Society: The Selk’nam of Tierra del Fuego. American Anthropologist 87, 1: 188-189.
1983   Review of books by Meillassoux, Sanday, and Dahlberg (ed.). Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 9, Winter: 304-07.
1983   Review of C. Hugh-Jones, From the Milk River, and S. Hugh-Jones, The Palm and the Pleiades. Anuário Antropológico 82: 350-359.
1978   Review of E. Basso, ed., Carib-Speaking Indians: Culture, Society and Language. American Ethnologist 5, 4: 786-787.
1977   Review of Y. Murphy and R. Murphy, Women of the Forest, and A. Pescatello, ed., Female and Male in Latin America: Essays. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research 3, 6: 602-606.

MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS

2003   Irving Goldman (1911-2002): A Brief Remembrance." Tipití The Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America. 1 (1): 155-159.
2003   "Plan Colombia and the Andean Initiative: Counter-terrorism or State Terrorism?" Swords and Ploughshares: Bulletin of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security Vol. XV Number 1, Summer: 16-19.
 2002   “Irving Goldman.” Anthropology News 43, 8:25
2002   "ACTA report criticizes professors." Anthropology News, 43,3:7
1999   “Comment” to Brian D. Haley and Larry R. Wilcoxon, “Anthropology and the Making of Chumash Tradition.” Current Anthropology 38, 5: 780-781.
1998   “Comment” to Michael Brown, “Can culture be copyrighted?” Current Anthropology 39, 2: 210.
1986   Review of film, The Ona People: Life and Death in Tierra del Fuego. American Anthropologist 88, 1, 267-68.
1975   Review of film “Xinguana: Aborigines of South America.” American Anthropologist, 77, 3: 700-701.

MANUSCRIPTS AND UNPUBLISHED REPORTS

Aug. 2003   "Stigma, Liminality, and Chronic Pain: Mind-Body Borderlands," submitted to American Ethnologist.
In Press   "Colombia's indigenous peoples confront the armed conflict." To be included in Elusive Peace: International, National and Local Dimensions of Conflict in Colombia. Edited by Cristina Rojas, Álvaro Camacho, and Judy Meltzer. Palgrave/Macmillan.
  "The Crisis in Colombia: Consequences for Indigenous Peoples." AAA Committee on Human Rights Task Force on Plan Colombia: http://www.aaanet.org/committees/cfhr/index.htm
Nov. 2001   “Plan Colombia.” Report for the Task Force on Colombia, AAA Committee on Human Rights.

WORK IN PROGRESS

  Paper on pain invited by Journal of Consciousness Studies special issue on pain.
  Chapter on "The politics of represeantation: The case of chronic Pain." For volume edited by John Loeser, David Morris and Daniel Carr: Narrative, Pain and Suffering.
  Review of books by David Maybury-Lewis, Rachel Sieder and Erick Langer for Reviews in Anthropology
"Indigenous Movements in Latin America." Review for Annual Reviews in Anthropology, co-authored with Kay Warren.

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