Ethnography Program – National Park Service SE Region
Antoinette Jackson, Ph.D. served as the Regional Cultural Anthropologist and Ethnography Program Manager for the National Park Service Southeast Region, August 2012-May 2016. The main focus of the NPS ethnography program is connecting people to parks. Jackson and her team provided consultation and technical assistance in the areas of community engagement and cultural resource management, development, and preservation for the region’s 66+ national parks from the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Park in Kentucky and the Wright Brothers National Memorial in North Carolina, to the Cane River Creole National Park in Louisiana and the Biscayne National Park in Florida.
See article: “More than scenery: National parks preserve our history and culture”, originally published in The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/more-than-scenery-national-parks-preserveour-history-and-culture-57708
View a brief video of the role of Ethnography in NPS:
Map of the Southeast region:
http://www.nps.gov/aboutus/foia/upload/SERO_map.pdf
Ethnography Program information/projects/activities
- Ethnography Program Management Overview
- Ethnography in the Parks- What does it mean today? Traditionally Associated People, Future generations, Civic Engagement, and Associated Communities. See 2009 article by Jenny Masur: http://www.georgewright.org/263masur.pdf
- Cultural Resources Management and Climate Change — View additional information http://ncptt.nps.gov/blog/training-in-climate-change-and-cultural-resources/