Jean Jackson

professor, anthropology, MIT

Jean E. Jackson received her B.A. from Wellesley College in Sociology/Anthropology in 1965, and her M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1972) from Stanford University. She began teaching at MIT in the fall of 1972. Her earlier Latin American research interests included small-scale societies, kinship and marriage, gender, and anthropological linguistics. During the past 20 years she has examined indigenous mobilizing in Colombia. She is currently conducting archival research on how Colombia's indigenous communities have been represented in the two national newspapers, 1988-present. She is the author of several books and essays including: *The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia* which was published in 1983. In 2002 she and co-editor Kay B. Warren published *Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation and the State in Latin America*. Recent essays include "Indigenous movements in Latin America, 1992-2004: Controversies, ironies, new directions" co-authored with Kay B. Warren (2005 Annual Review of Anthropology). She has also published various pieces on the Colombian conflict. "Colombia's Indigenous Peoples Confront the Armed Conflict" came out in 2005, as well as "Update on the Colombian Crisis" for the American Anthropological Association Committee for Human Rights.