Patricia Lyons Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 128435 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Lyons Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia Lyons |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON P L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0334-9713 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Infant mortality and intra‐household competition in the Northern Islands of Orkney, Scotland, 1855–2001
This study applies principles from the theory of household life cycles to the study of early childhood mortality in the population of the Northern Orkney Islands, Scotland. The primary hypothesis is that unfavorable household economic conditions resulting from changes in household demographic composition increase the risk of death for children under the age of 5 years because of limited resources and intra‐household competition. We apply Cox prop…
Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears
Household-level predictors of the presence of servants in Northern Orkney, Scotland, 1851–1901
Servants were an important part of the northwestern European household economy in the preindustrial past. This study examines household-level characteristics that are predictive of the presence of rural servants using data from Orkney, Scotland. The number of servants present in a household is related to household composition, landholding size, and the marital status of the household head. In addition, the sex of the particular servant hired reve…
Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea
Anyan's Story: A New Guinea Woman in Two Worlds
Anyan's Story:. New Guinea Woman in Two Worlds. Virginia Drew Watson. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. 208 pp
School Stress Reported by Children in Grades 4, 5, and 6
Stress in the school environment of 269 elementary school children attending Grades 4, 5, and 6 of a metropolitan school district were assessed using the School Stress Questionnaire. The effects of sex, ethnic background (minority vs nonminority), type of classroom placement (regular education versus special education), and family structure (traditional versus nontraditional or divorced) were investigated. Children from nontraditional or divorced…
Changing household composition, labor patterns, and fertility in a highland New Guinea population
Empirical approaches to household organization
Female fecundity in highland Papua New Guinea
Demographers often assume that interpopulation variation in birth spacing is attributable primarily to behavioral differences (e.g., in breastfeeding, coital frequency, or contraceptive practice), and that the contribution of physiological factors is negligible. This assumption may be correct, but it should be tested, especially in light of recent evidence that there may be more variation in ovarian function among human populations than was previ…
Women and development: A highland New Guinea example
Genetic characterization of Gainj‐ and Kalam‐Speaking peoples of Papua New Guinea
The research presented focuses on genetic variation in the Gainj‐ and Kalam‐speaking peoples of highland Papua New Guinea. The primary data are typings at 51 genetic loci observed on 600 individuals who reside in 21 census units, called parishes. These data are augmented by cultural and demographic information that has also been collected. Parish sizes are small, ranging from 20 to about 200 individuals. Direct Western contact with these people h…
Demographic and endocrinological aspects of low natural fertility in highland New Guinea
The Gainj of highland Papua New Guinea do not use contraception but have a total fertility rate of only 4·3 live births per woman, one of the lowest ever recorded in a natural fertility setting. From an analysis of cross-sectional demographic and endocrinological data, the causes of low reproductive output have been identified in women of this population as: late menarche and marriage, a long interval between marriage and first birth, a high prob…
Lactation and birth spacing in highland New Guinea
The effects of infant suckling patterns on the post-partum resumption of ovulation and on birth-spacing are investigated among the Gainj of highland New Guinea. Based on hormonal evidence, the median duration of lactational anovulation is 20·4 months, accounting for about 75% of the median interval between live birth and next successful conception (i.e. resulting in live birth). Throughout lactation, suckling episodes are short and frequent, the …
The genetic demography of the Gainj of Papua New Guinea. I. Local differentiation of blood group, red cell enzyme, and serum protein allele frequencies
Allele frequencies are reported for 19 blood group, red cell enzyme, and serum protein loci (ABO, Rh, MN, Hb‐A, LDH‐A, LDH‐B, SOD, PGM‐1, PGM‐2, 6PGD, GPT, ESD, ADA, ACP, PGK, MDH, Alb, Hp, and Tf) determined from 310 blood samples collected among the Gainj, a small population of tribal horticulturalists from highland Papua New Guinea. Fourteen of these loci display genetic variants, and ten of them are sufficiently polymorphic to permit a prelim…
When Dying Is Better than Living: Female Suicide among the Gainj of Papua New Guinea
Paul Bohannan (I960:24) commented that only tenable position in the present state of the literature is that the suicide situation in various primitive societies is open to investigation, but has not been investigated. Twenty years later, not a great deal has changed. Many ethnographers have reported suicides in preliterate societies, but with some notable exceptions they have approached suicide as an essentially individual phenomenon.2 Little eff…
When Dying Is Better than Living: Female Suicide among the Gainj of Papua New Guinea
Paul Bohannan (I960:24) commented that only tenable position in the present state of the literature is that the suicide situation in various primitive societies is open to investigation, but has not been investigated. Twenty years later, not a great deal has changed. Many ethnographers have reported suicides in preliterate societies, but with some notable exceptions they have approached suicide as an essentially individual phenomenon.2 Little eff…
Genetic characterization of Gainj‐ and Kalam‐Speaking peoples of Papua New Guinea
The research presented focuses on genetic variation in the Gainj‐ and Kalam‐speaking peoples of highland Papua New Guinea. The primary data are typings at 51 genetic loci observed on 600 individuals who reside in 21 census units, called parishes. These data are augmented by cultural and demographic information that has also been collected. Parish sizes are small, ranging from 20 to about 200 individuals. Direct Western contact with these people h…
The genetic demography of the Gainj of Papua New Guinea. I. Local differentiation of blood group, red cell enzyme, and serum protein allele frequencies
Allele frequencies are reported for 19 blood group, red cell enzyme, and serum protein loci (ABO, Rh, MN, Hb‐A, LDH‐A, LDH‐B, SOD, PGM‐1, PGM‐2, 6PGD, GPT, ESD, ADA, ACP, PGK, MDH, Alb, Hp, and Tf) determined from 310 blood samples collected among the Gainj, a small population of tribal horticulturalists from highland Papua New Guinea. Fourteen of these loci display genetic variants, and ten of them are sufficiently polymorphic to permit a prelim…
Household-level predictors of the presence of servants in Northern Orkney, Scotland, 1851–1901
Servants were an important part of the northwestern European household economy in the preindustrial past. This study examines household-level characteristics that are predictive of the presence of rural servants using data from Orkney, Scotland. The number of servants present in a household is related to household composition, landholding size, and the marital status of the household head. In addition, the sex of the particular servant hired reve…
Infant mortality and intra‐household competition in the Northern Islands of Orkney, Scotland, 1855–2001
This study applies principles from the theory of household life cycles to the study of early childhood mortality in the population of the Northern Orkney Islands, Scotland. The primary hypothesis is that unfavorable household economic conditions resulting from changes in household demographic composition increase the risk of death for children under the age of 5 years because of limited resources and intra‐household competition. We apply Cox prop…
Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears
When Dying Is Better than Living: Female Suicide among the Gainj of Papua New Guinea
Paul Bohannan (I960:24) commented that only tenable position in the present state of the literature is that the suicide situation in various primitive societies is open to investigation, but has not been investigated. Twenty years later, not a great deal has changed. Many ethnographers have reported suicides in preliterate societies, but with some notable exceptions they have approached suicide as an essentially individual phenomenon.2 Little eff…
The genetic demography of the Gainj of Papua New Guinea. I. Local differentiation of blood group, red cell enzyme, and serum protein allele frequencies
Allele frequencies are reported for 19 blood group, red cell enzyme, and serum protein loci (ABO, Rh, MN, Hb‐A, LDH‐A, LDH‐B, SOD, PGM‐1, PGM‐2, 6PGD, GPT, ESD, ADA, ACP, PGK, MDH, Alb, Hp, and Tf) determined from 310 blood samples collected among the Gainj, a small population of tribal horticulturalists from highland Papua New Guinea. Fourteen of these loci display genetic variants, and ten of them are sufficiently polymorphic to permit a prelim…
Demographic and endocrinological aspects of low natural fertility in highland New Guinea
The Gainj of highland Papua New Guinea do not use contraception but have a total fertility rate of only 4·3 live births per woman, one of the lowest ever recorded in a natural fertility setting. From an analysis of cross-sectional demographic and endocrinological data, the causes of low reproductive output have been identified in women of this population as: late menarche and marriage, a long interval between marriage and first birth, a high prob…
Lactation and birth spacing in highland New Guinea
The effects of infant suckling patterns on the post-partum resumption of ovulation and on birth-spacing are investigated among the Gainj of highland New Guinea. Based on hormonal evidence, the median duration of lactational anovulation is 20·4 months, accounting for about 75% of the median interval between live birth and next successful conception (i.e. resulting in live birth). Throughout lactation, suckling episodes are short and frequent, the …
Genetic characterization of Gainj‐ and Kalam‐Speaking peoples of Papua New Guinea
The research presented focuses on genetic variation in the Gainj‐ and Kalam‐speaking peoples of highland Papua New Guinea. The primary data are typings at 51 genetic loci observed on 600 individuals who reside in 21 census units, called parishes. These data are augmented by cultural and demographic information that has also been collected. Parish sizes are small, ranging from 20 to about 200 individuals. Direct Western contact with these people h…
Women and development: A highland New Guinea example
Changing household composition, labor patterns, and fertility in a highland New Guinea population
Empirical approaches to household organization
Female fecundity in highland Papua New Guinea
Demographers often assume that interpopulation variation in birth spacing is attributable primarily to behavioral differences (e.g., in breastfeeding, coital frequency, or contraceptive practice), and that the contribution of physiological factors is negligible. This assumption may be correct, but it should be tested, especially in light of recent evidence that there may be more variation in ovarian function among human populations than was previ…
School Stress Reported by Children in Grades 4, 5, and 6
Stress in the school environment of 269 elementary school children attending Grades 4, 5, and 6 of a metropolitan school district were assessed using the School Stress Questionnaire. The effects of sex, ethnic background (minority vs nonminority), type of classroom placement (regular education versus special education), and family structure (traditional versus nontraditional or divorced) were investigated. Children from nontraditional or divorced…
Anyan's Story: A New Guinea Woman in Two Worlds
Anyan's Story:. New Guinea Woman in Two Worlds. Virginia Drew Watson. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. 208 pp
Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea
Household-level predictors of the presence of servants in Northern Orkney, Scotland, 1851–1901
Servants were an important part of the northwestern European household economy in the preindustrial past. This study examines household-level characteristics that are predictive of the presence of rural servants using data from Orkney, Scotland. The number of servants present in a household is related to household composition, landholding size, and the marital status of the household head. In addition, the sex of the particular servant hired reve…
Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears
Infant mortality and intra‐household competition in the Northern Islands of Orkney, Scotland, 1855–2001
This study applies principles from the theory of household life cycles to the study of early childhood mortality in the population of the Northern Orkney Islands, Scotland. The primary hypothesis is that unfavorable household economic conditions resulting from changes in household demographic composition increase the risk of death for children under the age of 5 years because of limited resources and intra‐household competition. We apply Cox prop…
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