Jason Baird Jackson is Ruth N. Halls Professor of Folklore and Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of Yuchi Ceremonial Life: Performance, Meaning and Tradition in a Contemporary American Indian Community and Yuchi Folklore: Cultural Expression in a Southeastern Native American Community and the editor of Material Vernaculars: Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds. A former museum curator and director, he has curated more than twenty exhibitions, and he remains active in museum anthropology and museum-based folklore studies.