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“A Culture Carried: Chin Basketry in Central Indiana”: Five Questions for Exhibition Curator Jon Kay
(Material Culture and Heritage Studies Laboratory, 2024-08-30) Kay, Jon; Jackson, Jason Baird
Working with IU Bloomington folklore studies doctoral student and MCHSL affiliate Touhidul Islam as co-curator and in partnership with colleagues, collaborators and tradition bearers in the Central Indiana Chin community, Jon Kay organized the exhibition “A Culture Carried: Chin Basketry in Central Indiana." It was presented at the Gayle Karch Cook Center at Indiana University Bloomington between August 26 and October 4, 2024. The following interview was undertaken by Jason Baird Jackson, with Jon Kay, between August 24 and 30, 2024. It was initially published as follows: Kay, Jon, and Jason Baird Jackson. 2024. “‘A Culture Carried: Chin Basketry in Central Indiana’: Five Questions for Exhibition Curator Jon Kay.” Shreds and Patches (blog). August 30, 2024. https://jasonbairdjackson.com/2024/08/30/a-culture-carried-chin-basketry-in-central-indiana-five-questions-for-exhibition-curator-jon-kay/. In order to make this interview durably available, it is being added to the Published Works and White Papers series of the Material Culture and Heritage Studies Laboratory of the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University. It is deposited in IUScholarWorks with the consent of the author.
Anthropology of/in Circulation: The Future of Open Access and Scholarly Societies
(American Anthropological Association (Society for Cultural Anthropology), 2008-08) Kelty, Christopher M.; Fischer, Michael M. J.; Golub, Alex; Jackson, Jason Baird; Christen, Kimberly; Brown, Michael F.; Boellstorff, Tom
In a conversation format, seven anthropologists with extensive expertise in new digital technologies, intellectual property, and journal publishing discuss issues related to open access, the anthropology of information circulation, and the future of scholarly societies. Among the topics discussed are current anthropological research on open source and open access; the effects of open access on traditional anthropological topics; the creation of community archives and new networking tools; potentially transformative uses of field notes and materials in new digital ecologies; the American Anthropological Association’s recent history with these issues, from the development of AnthroSource to its new publishing arrangement with Wiley-Blackwell; and the political economies of knowledge circulation more generally.
Chinese Vernacular Culture in the Global Midwest: A Workshop Held at Indiana University, September 4-6, 2014
(2014-10-12) Jackson, Jason Baird
A report on a project planning workshop--Chinese Vernacular Culture in the Global Midwest--held at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, September 4-6, 2014.
Collaborative, Consultative, and Research-‐Based Public Folklore Programming in Museum Contexts: A Professional Development Project to Strengthen the Work of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Traditional Arts Indiana, and the Michigan State University Museum
(American Folklore Society, 2015) Jackson, Jason Baird
A report on a professional development effort undertaking pursued with support from the Consultancy and Professional Development Program of the American Folklore Society.
Ethnography and Ethnographers in Museum-Community Partnerships
(Practicing Anthropology [a journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology], 2000) Jackson, Jason Baird
FOLK F640 Native American Folklore and Folk Music
(2005) Jackson, Jason Baird
This syllabus was used in spring 2005 in a graduate seminar in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University. As with all Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology syllabi made available in IUScholarWorks, the course instructor who created the syllabi retains all relevant rights to it as a creative work.
FOLK F722 Putting Cultural Theory to Use
(2006) Jackson, Jason Baird
This syllabus was used in spring 2006 in a graduate seminar in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University. As with all Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology syllabi made available in IUScholarWorks, the course instructor who created the syllabi retains all relevant rights to it as a creative work.
FROM BATEY TO MARQUESINA: THE HISTORY, FORM, AND USE OF THE CARPORT IN PUERTO RICO
([Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2024-07) Colom Braña, Gloria M.; Jackson, Jason Baird
This project examines the cultural practices enacted within carports in Puerto Rico, specifically how these have been transferred from the packed earth batey in front of the house, to the modernist space associated with car storage. The research interweaves material culture, geography, and folkloristic ethnography to gain a more complete concept of how vernacular architecture continues to develop in Puerto Rico. This work takes into account the Puerto Rico’s historic relationship to the United States and the contemporary economic, social, and political realities. I traveled to Puerto Rico during the summers and fall over various years, performing a building survey of single-family houses throughout the municipality of Arecibo, archival research, interviews, an online survey, ethnographic observations, and autoethnographic reflections. The introductory chapter presents the research context, theoretical framing, and methodology along with a chapter breakdown. The rest of the dissertation is dedicated to presenting (1) the historical context of how the carport became endemic in Puerto Rico as part of overarching changes throughout Puerto Rico, with the socio-cultural impact; (2) taking a closer look at the carport as a space within the Puerto Rican house, its different materials and components, the relationship of each part to the other, and what these say about contemporary Puerto Rican houses; (3) an analysis of the social and cultural engagements within carports, ranging from daily interactions to life major life events, and how people’s relationship to the carport is changing due to climate, political, and economic changes occurring in Puerto Rico. This project contributes to folklore studies by researching uses of space that have not been previously studied, and within these spaces, seeking the contemporary adaptations of traditional interactions in modernist spaces, in such a way that can be compared to other case studies throughout the world.
From the Editor of Museum Anthropology
(American Anthropologist (American Anthropological Association), 2008-12) Jackson, Jason Baird
Henry Glassie
(Indiana University, 2009) Jackson, Jason Baird
HOME IS WHERE THE PAST IS: CONSTRUCTING FOLK HISTORY THROUGH LANDSCAPE AND STORYTELLING IN THE KAREN COMMUNITY, THAILAND
([Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2022-12) Promsen, Patawee; Jackson, Jason Baird; Cashman, Ray; Shukla, Pravina; Kay, Jon
This dissertation explores how folk history and historiography is constructed and performed through various forms of oral tradition and how folk history, which implicates and enacts social memory and forgetting, is political by its nature. Following the pioneering work in folk history of Américo Paredes (1961), Henry Glassie (1982; 1986), Alessandro Portelli (1991), Ray Cashman (2006), and Guy Beiner (2007), this dissertation expands the horizon of folk history studies to Huaitom Community, situated on the periphery of Thailand, where a group of hill people called the Karen, the Sino-Tibetan speaking group, is living their present and their past in a place they call home. While Huaitom folk history comprises diverse genres of expression—oral tradition, material culture, rituals, and festivals—this research will focus mainly and primarily on the verbal forms of folk history, especially the ethnic genre called ‘talerpler’, with occasional references to other verbal and nonverbal genres, for their intertextual relationships could also significantly contribute to an alternative vernacular history of the Huaitom Karen. Talerpler is a Sgaw Karen word that means ‘old story.’ It contains folktales, mythology, legends, and anecdotes referencing the past. Historical legends will be a big part of Talerpler collected and analyzed in this dissertation, since they are richer in information and are told more frequently. This dissertation offers a collection of stories gathered from the field site between 2014 and 2021. It then explores the place and time consciousness as revealed through storytelling. It later summarizes that story and storytelling can be used as a tool to establish vernacular ‘histories’ and ‘identities’ that are contested and differ from official narratives.
“Inside of Each Story Was a Piece of My Story”: Applied Folklore Addressing Stigma Around Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders
([Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University[, 2017-02) Perkins, Jodine; Jackson, Jason Baird
Situated within scholarship on applied folklore, this dissertation discusses and evaluates the 2013–2015 Pacific Post Partum Support Society’s (PPPSS) “Strengthening Community-based Resources for Families Experiencing Perinatal Depression and Anxiety and Their Health Care Providers” project. In this project, working with PPPSS staff, contractors, and volunteers, I used mixed methods to create educational resources and new services for clients and professional helpers. The overall project was designed to reduce the stigma of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) and to encourage struggling new parents to reach out for help sooner, when treatment is likely to be less expensive and more effective. Making use of post-project follow-up interviews with project participants and staff, this dissertation documents, reflects on, and evaluates this project in order to serve as a case study to guide the development and implementation of similar applied folklore projects. By analyzing the narratives of project participants, this dissertation also examines the multifaceted, pervasive, and profound impact of stigma on new parents’ perinatal experiences, especially those experiencing a PMAD. This dissertation also discusses the process of sharing personal experience narratives in a supportive environment that formed the key inspiration for this applied project, as well some of the potential impacts on parents who share these narratives, including providing a way to understand their own experiences. This dissertation encourages additional applied folklore work to support struggling new parents and offers suggestions for how health care providers, community support workers, and friends and family members can better support new parents in the hopes of promoting positive outcomes for families.
Material Culture and Heritage Safeguarding in Southwest China
(International Folklore Studies Center, 2021-09-16) Jackson, Jason Baird; Zhang, Lijun; Wuerxiya
Drawing on six years of ethnographic investigation pursued collaboratively by U.S. and Chinese folklorists, museum professionals, and local cultural groups, this two-part symposium offers research reports on material culture and heritage policies in Southwest China. In keeping with the larger binational project from which the papers derive, some presentations will consider the intersection of these two topical domains. Cultural groups whose circumstances will be discussed include the Baiku Yao people of Nandan County (Guangxi), the Dong people of Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County (Guangxi) and Liping County (Guizhou), and the Bai of the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture (Yunnan).
Material Vernaculars: Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds
(Indiana University Press, 2016) Jackson, Jason Baird
The role of objects and images in everyday life are illuminated incisively in Material Vernaculars, which combines historical, ethnographic, and object-based methods across a diverse range of material and visual cultural forms. The contributors to this volume offer revealing insights into the significance of such practices as scrapbooking, folk art produced by the elderly, the wedding coat in Osage ceremonial exchanges, temporary huts built during the Jewish festival of Sukkot, and Kiowa women's traditional roles in raiding and warfare. While emphasizing local vernacular culture, the contributors point to the ways that culture is put to social ends within larger social networks and within the stream of history. While attending to the material world, these case studies explicate the manner in which the tangible and intangible, the material and the meaningful, are constantly entwined and co-constituted.
The Paradoxical Power of Endangerment: Traditional Native American Dance and Music in Eastern Oklahoma
(World Literature Today, 2007-09) Jackson, Jason Baird
Photographic Supplement: Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies
(2022-06-14) Jackson, Jason Baird
This work is a photographic supplement to accompany a journal article titled "Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies: An Initiative of the American Folklore Society and Its Partners in China and the United States."
Review of 'Languages of the Aboriginal Southeast: An Annotated Bibliography' (Barber)
(Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University, 1993) Jackson, Jason Baird
Review of 'North American Indian Anthropology: Essays on Society and Culture' (DeMallie and Ortiz)
(Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University, 1996) Jackson, Jason Baird
Review of: A Companion to Folklore (Bendix and Hasan-Rokem, eds.)
(Journal of Folklore Research Reviews, 2013-04-03) Jackson, Jason Baird
This is a published book review of Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem's edited book A Companion to Folklore (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
Review of: Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights
(Journal of Folklore Research Reviews, 2011-03-03) Jackson, Jason Baird