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Jean Jackson

Room
16-241
Phone
617-253-6953
Email
jjackson@mit.edu
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Professor Jackson received her B.A. from Wellesley College (Anthropology/Sociology, 1965), and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University (Medical Anthropology, 1966; Anthropology, 1972). She has been at MIT since 1972. She has been examining social and ethnic identity among indigenous populations of the Northwest Amazon since 1968, in 1983 publishing The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia. A volume co-edited with Kay Warren, Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation and the State in Latin America, was published in 2002.

She has also carried out research on gender, the epistemology of ethnography, and, for the last seventeen years, chronic pain. "Camp Pain": Talking with Chronic Pain Patients, based on NIMH-funded research in an in-patient pain center in New England, was published in 2000.