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Jean Jackson
Jean Jackson began teaching anthropology at MIT in 1972. She has carried out fieldwork in Mexico, Guatemala, and, from 1968 to the present, in Colombia, initially in the Central Northwest Amazon. In addition to her work on indigenous mobilizing in Colombia, with a focus on the role of the State and NGOs, she has also conducted ethnographic research in an inpatient chronic pain center, and published articles and essays about mind/body coordination. More

