Allen W Johnson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 108303 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Allen W Johnson |
| NOMBRES | Allen W |
| APELLIDO | Johnson |
| FIRMA | JOHNSON A W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0588-5955 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 131 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Drawing African Diasporic women anthropologists in dialogue
Inspired by the use of naming and portraiture together in the Black artivism-such as that protesting the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor-this paper reflects on the use of portrait drawing as a practice of genealogy. While working on a project to raise the visibility of scholars and their works in the African Diaspora, specifically Francophone women anthropologists, I felt compelled to draw their portraits. Drawing African Diasporic wom…
Resituating the Crossroads
Inspired by the seminal Black Feminist Anthropology volume edited by Irma McClaurin, I examine how Black feminist ethnographies have theorized intersectionality or what the Combahee River Collective called the “simultaneity” and “interlocking” of oppressions. One overlooked theoretical contribution by Black feminist ethnography in terms of analyzing race, class, and gender is the conception of the simultaneity of conjuncture and disjuncture. Give…
The Evolution of Human Societies
Is it appropriate to claim that population growth is caused by improvements in people’s standards of living? How can we explain the evolution and growth of the complexity of human societies? The book The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State seeks to illuminate these and other questions. The authors have an ambitious aim to formulate integral evolutionary theory suitable to account for the diversity of modern societi…
Turnaround” as Shock Therapy
“Turnaround” strategies of educational reform promise that school closure, reconstitution, privatizing, and reopening them will bring miraculous results. Questioning the implications, this article situates “turnaround” strategies locally, following the closure of a predominantly minority high school in 2008, in Austin, Texas. The neoliberal reforms, intending to “clean the slate” and privatize school management, constituted “shock therapy.” The s…
Objectifying Measures
Thinking as Communication
Globalization and Race
Engaged Surrender
Families of the Forest
The idea of a family level society, discussed and disputed by anthropologists for nearly half a century, assumes moving, breathing form in Families of the Forest. According to Allen Johnson's deft ethnography, the Matsigenka people of southeastern Peru cannot be understood or appreciated except as a family level society; the family level of sociocultural integration is for them a lived reality. Under ordinary circumstances, the largest social uni…
The Evolution of Human Societies
Political consciousness on Boa Ventura
On the basis of research conducted on a Brazilian fazenda in 1966–67 (Johnson 1971), I formulated a hypothesis concerning the emergence of class consciousness among tenant farmers in a highly class-structured society (Johnson 1975). Recent restudies in 1988–89 offer the opportunity to evaluate that hypothesis in the light of twenty-two years of significant change in the Brazilian political economy. In this paper I will illustrate the value of lon…
Oedipus Ubiquitous
Part I. Analysis: 1. Introduction 2. A brief history of research on family-complex tales 3. The evidence from world folk literature 4. The theory of the family complex in folk literature 5. Conclusion Part II. The Folktales: 1. Europe and Euro-America 2. Middle East and Africa 3. South and East Asia 4. Oceania 5. Native North America 6. Native South America
Obituaries
Oedipus ubiquitous
Contemporary Health Services
Individuality and experimentation in traditional agriculture
The Raft Fishermen
Wages and Income in Ceará, Brazil
Peasant workers on two plantations studied are simultaneously sharecroppers and wage laborers. Wages are partly determined by supply and demand; but other conditions also determine wages, e.g., personalized patron-client relationships. A worker has various possibilities in the wage-labor market; which he chooses is dependent in part upon his income and wealth. Generally, the greater the cushion of wealth between him and marginal subsistence, the …
The Evolution of Human Societies
Turnaround” as Shock Therapy
“Turnaround” strategies of educational reform promise that school closure, reconstitution, privatizing, and reopening them will bring miraculous results. Questioning the implications, this article situates “turnaround” strategies locally, following the closure of a predominantly minority high school in 2008, in Austin, Texas. The neoliberal reforms, intending to “clean the slate” and privatize school management, constituted “shock therapy.” The s…
Oedipus ubiquitous
Resituating the Crossroads
Inspired by the seminal Black Feminist Anthropology volume edited by Irma McClaurin, I examine how Black feminist ethnographies have theorized intersectionality or what the Combahee River Collective called the “simultaneity” and “interlocking” of oppressions. One overlooked theoretical contribution by Black feminist ethnography in terms of analyzing race, class, and gender is the conception of the simultaneity of conjuncture and disjuncture. Give…
Obituaries
Wages and Income in Ceará, Brazil
Peasant workers on two plantations studied are simultaneously sharecroppers and wage laborers. Wages are partly determined by supply and demand; but other conditions also determine wages, e.g., personalized patron-client relationships. A worker has various possibilities in the wage-labor market; which he chooses is dependent in part upon his income and wealth. Generally, the greater the cushion of wealth between him and marginal subsistence, the …
Individuality and experimentation in traditional agriculture
The Raft Fishermen
Contemporary Health Services
Oedipus ubiquitous
Political consciousness on Boa Ventura
On the basis of research conducted on a Brazilian fazenda in 1966–67 (Johnson 1971), I formulated a hypothesis concerning the emergence of class consciousness among tenant farmers in a highly class-structured society (Johnson 1975). Recent restudies in 1988–89 offer the opportunity to evaluate that hypothesis in the light of twenty-two years of significant change in the Brazilian political economy. In this paper I will illustrate the value of lon…
Oedipus Ubiquitous
Part I. Analysis: 1. Introduction 2. A brief history of research on family-complex tales 3. The evidence from world folk literature 4. The theory of the family complex in folk literature 5. Conclusion Part II. The Folktales: 1. Europe and Euro-America 2. Middle East and Africa 3. South and East Asia 4. Oceania 5. Native North America 6. Native South America
Obituaries
The Evolution of Human Societies
Families of the Forest
The idea of a family level society, discussed and disputed by anthropologists for nearly half a century, assumes moving, breathing form in Families of the Forest. According to Allen Johnson's deft ethnography, the Matsigenka people of southeastern Peru cannot be understood or appreciated except as a family level society; the family level of sociocultural integration is for them a lived reality. Under ordinary circumstances, the largest social uni…
Globalization and Race
Engaged Surrender
Thinking as Communication
Objectifying Measures
Turnaround” as Shock Therapy
“Turnaround” strategies of educational reform promise that school closure, reconstitution, privatizing, and reopening them will bring miraculous results. Questioning the implications, this article situates “turnaround” strategies locally, following the closure of a predominantly minority high school in 2008, in Austin, Texas. The neoliberal reforms, intending to “clean the slate” and privatize school management, constituted “shock therapy.” The s…
The Evolution of Human Societies
Is it appropriate to claim that population growth is caused by improvements in people’s standards of living? How can we explain the evolution and growth of the complexity of human societies? The book The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State seeks to illuminate these and other questions. The authors have an ambitious aim to formulate integral evolutionary theory suitable to account for the diversity of modern societi…
Resituating the Crossroads
Inspired by the seminal Black Feminist Anthropology volume edited by Irma McClaurin, I examine how Black feminist ethnographies have theorized intersectionality or what the Combahee River Collective called the “simultaneity” and “interlocking” of oppressions. One overlooked theoretical contribution by Black feminist ethnography in terms of analyzing race, class, and gender is the conception of the simultaneity of conjuncture and disjuncture. Give…
Drawing African Diasporic women anthropologists in dialogue
Inspired by the use of naming and portraiture together in the Black artivism-such as that protesting the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor-this paper reflects on the use of portrait drawing as a practice of genealogy. While working on a project to raise the visibility of scholars and their works in the African Diaspora, specifically Francophone women anthropologists, I felt compelled to draw their portraits. Drawing African Diasporic wom…
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