I am presently reading a chapter in the monumental Fowler Museum exhibition catalog The Art of Rice: Spirit and Sustenance in Asia (Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2003). It is “Rice Harvest Rituals in Two Highland Tai Communities in Vietnam” by Vi Vǎn An and Eric Crystal. I was drawn to this […]
Baduo [Natural] Village, Xinsitu [Administrative] Village, Jinuo Ethnic Township, Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China Visited December 24, 2023 This is the twenty-first post in the series: Villages and Towns of the Southeast Asian Massif. Approximately: 22° 2′ 6.86″ N, 101° 0′ 25.63″ E
The following are still photographs taken by Jason Baird Jackson in Dunn Meadow on the Indiana University Bloomington campus on Thursday, April 25, 2024 between 12:15 pm and 5:50 pm. I arrived on the scene not in any way expecting what would take place on this day. I departed the scene to attend the Department […]
The following are still photographs taken by Jason Baird Jackson in Dunn Meadow on the Indiana University Bloomington campus on Saturday, April 27, 2024 between 12:15 pm and 2:23 pm. In contrast to April 25, I arrived on the scene fearful but with some awareness of about what would take place on this day. I […]
I am eager to share the following call for CMA award nominations. Check it out and nominate the wonderful colleagues in your world. –Jason Michael M. Ames Award The Council for Museum Anthropology is seeking nominations for the Michael M. Ames Award for Innovative Museum Anthropology. The award is given to individuals for an innovative […]
During a semester (and a year, and a period) filled with woe, my graduate course was one of the most meaningful and rich educational experiences of my career. I jumped with my students into a deep and unfamiliar pool. Thankfully they were excellent swimmers, and everything turned out better-than-well. For the past ten years I […]
There are too many things needing to be written about. Many of them are grim. Here I want to begin the work week with positivity. This past semester, I taught one wholly new graduate course and one substantively new undergraduate course. I do not yet have confirmation from course evaluations, but I think that they […]