Jennifer Johnson‐hank
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581054 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Johnson‐hank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson‐hank |
| SIGNATURE | HANK J J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 520 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Gender, Honor, and Aggregate Fertility
This article examines the tension between population-level and individual-level interests regarding childbearing, from Malthus's concern for overpopulation to the contemporary issue of son preference, and argues for an understanding of individual-level interests that distinguishes parents from households. In making this distinction, we draw attention to how gender norms can play an important role in shaping reproductive interests. Survey data and…
Special Issue
Demographic Transitions and Modernity
Much contemporary anthropology is concerned with the origin, character, and consequences of late modernity. Surprisingly absent in this literature is the importance of population size, structure, and process. In particular, the demographic transition-or historical change from a high to a low equilibrium of birth and death rates-is an important component of modernity that deserves greater anthropological engagement. This review outlines demographi…
Natural Intentions
Many recent models of society treat certain forms of action as revealing individual intentions, aspirations, or preferences. For example, formal models of fertility decline following Henry and Coale take specific childbearing distributions to indicate "natural fertility," where couples take no intentional action to manage their reproduction. This article argues that this mode of inference can be valid only when the cultural repertoires that media…
What kind of theory for anthropological demography
This paper argues that demographic anthropology has, for most part, imported rather than exported theory. Yet, the discipline has the potential to generate important rethinking of population, culture, and their interaction. After discussing the state o
Women on the market
In this article, I show how dramatic social changes in Yaoundé, Cameroon, are the product of women applying long-standing cultural schemata in a changed economic context. Marriage rates are falling precipitously, and growing numbers of relatively elite women are looking beyond the nation's borders for husbands. Yet, as these women seek foreign husbands, their models of marriage are largely transposed out of older forms of bridewealth: E-mail-medi…
On the Politics and Practice of Muslim Fertility
Recent popular works have represented Muslim fertility as dangerously high, both a cause and consequence of religious fundamentalism. This article uses comparative, statistical methods to show that this representation is empirically wrong, at least in West Africa. Although religion strongly inflects reproductive practice, its effects are not constant across different communities. In West African countries with Muslim majorities, Muslim fertility …
When the Future Decides
n Contains fulltext :\n 55576.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n
Éducation, ethnicité et pratiques reproductives au Cameroun
On observe souvent que les femmes instruites ont moins d'enfants que les femmes moins instruites, ce qui appelle une interprétation en termes de lien de cause à effet. Toutefois, les femmes instruites diffèrent de bien d'autres façons des femmes n'ayant jamais fréquenté l'école : les deux facteurs sont liés de façon multiple. Le présent article analyse la relation entre instruction et fécondité dans le Cameroun d'aujourd'hui en tant que phénomène…
On the Modernity of Traditional Contraception
Many studies of fertility implicitly equate temporal management, biomedical contraception, and "modernity" on the one hand, and "tradition," the lack of intentional timing, and uncontrolled fertility on the other. This article questions that equation, focusing on the widespread use of periodic abstinence in southern Cameroon. Drawing on field data and the Cameroon Demographic and Health Survey, the article investigates how local concepts of timin…
The lesser shame
On the Limits of Life Stages in Ethnography
This article argues for a new anthropology of the life course, one founded in indeterminacy and innovation. The fact that vital life events are rarely coherent, clear in direction, or fixed in outcome dramatically limits the usefulness of the life cycle model. In its place, I propose a unit of social analysis based in aspiration rather than event. I call this the vital conjuncture-integrating the "vital" of demographic vital events with Bourdieu'…
On the Limits of Life Stages in Ethnography
This article argues for a new anthropology of the life course, one founded in indeterminacy and innovation. The fact that vital life events are rarely coherent, clear in direction, or fixed in outcome dramatically limits the usefulness of the life cycle model. In its place, I propose a unit of social analysis based in aspiration rather than event. I call this the vital conjuncture-integrating the "vital" of demographic vital events with Bourdieu'…
When the Future Decides
n Contains fulltext :\n 55576.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n
Natural Intentions
Many recent models of society treat certain forms of action as revealing individual intentions, aspirations, or preferences. For example, formal models of fertility decline following Henry and Coale take specific childbearing distributions to indicate "natural fertility," where couples take no intentional action to manage their reproduction. This article argues that this mode of inference can be valid only when the cultural repertoires that media…
On the Modernity of Traditional Contraception
Many studies of fertility implicitly equate temporal management, biomedical contraception, and "modernity" on the one hand, and "tradition," the lack of intentional timing, and uncontrolled fertility on the other. This article questions that equation, focusing on the widespread use of periodic abstinence in southern Cameroon. Drawing on field data and the Cameroon Demographic and Health Survey, the article investigates how local concepts of timin…
The lesser shame
Women on the market
In this article, I show how dramatic social changes in Yaoundé, Cameroon, are the product of women applying long-standing cultural schemata in a changed economic context. Marriage rates are falling precipitously, and growing numbers of relatively elite women are looking beyond the nation's borders for husbands. Yet, as these women seek foreign husbands, their models of marriage are largely transposed out of older forms of bridewealth: E-mail-medi…
Demographic Transitions and Modernity
Much contemporary anthropology is concerned with the origin, character, and consequences of late modernity. Surprisingly absent in this literature is the importance of population size, structure, and process. In particular, the demographic transition-or historical change from a high to a low equilibrium of birth and death rates-is an important component of modernity that deserves greater anthropological engagement. This review outlines demographi…
On the Politics and Practice of Muslim Fertility
Recent popular works have represented Muslim fertility as dangerously high, both a cause and consequence of religious fundamentalism. This article uses comparative, statistical methods to show that this representation is empirically wrong, at least in West Africa. Although religion strongly inflects reproductive practice, its effects are not constant across different communities. In West African countries with Muslim majorities, Muslim fertility …
What kind of theory for anthropological demography
This paper argues that demographic anthropology has, for most part, imported rather than exported theory. Yet, the discipline has the potential to generate important rethinking of population, culture, and their interaction. After discussing the state o
Éducation, ethnicité et pratiques reproductives au Cameroun
On observe souvent que les femmes instruites ont moins d'enfants que les femmes moins instruites, ce qui appelle une interprétation en termes de lien de cause à effet. Toutefois, les femmes instruites diffèrent de bien d'autres façons des femmes n'ayant jamais fréquenté l'école : les deux facteurs sont liés de façon multiple. Le présent article analyse la relation entre instruction et fécondité dans le Cameroun d'aujourd'hui en tant que phénomène…
Special Issue
Gender, Honor, and Aggregate Fertility
This article examines the tension between population-level and individual-level interests regarding childbearing, from Malthus's concern for overpopulation to the contemporary issue of son preference, and argues for an understanding of individual-level interests that distinguishes parents from households. In making this distinction, we draw attention to how gender norms can play an important role in shaping reproductive interests. Survey data and…
On the Modernity of Traditional Contraception
Many studies of fertility implicitly equate temporal management, biomedical contraception, and "modernity" on the one hand, and "tradition," the lack of intentional timing, and uncontrolled fertility on the other. This article questions that equation, focusing on the widespread use of periodic abstinence in southern Cameroon. Drawing on field data and the Cameroon Demographic and Health Survey, the article investigates how local concepts of timin…
The lesser shame
On the Limits of Life Stages in Ethnography
This article argues for a new anthropology of the life course, one founded in indeterminacy and innovation. The fact that vital life events are rarely coherent, clear in direction, or fixed in outcome dramatically limits the usefulness of the life cycle model. In its place, I propose a unit of social analysis based in aspiration rather than event. I call this the vital conjuncture-integrating the "vital" of demographic vital events with Bourdieu'…
Éducation, ethnicité et pratiques reproductives au Cameroun
On observe souvent que les femmes instruites ont moins d'enfants que les femmes moins instruites, ce qui appelle une interprétation en termes de lien de cause à effet. Toutefois, les femmes instruites diffèrent de bien d'autres façons des femmes n'ayant jamais fréquenté l'école : les deux facteurs sont liés de façon multiple. Le présent article analyse la relation entre instruction et fécondité dans le Cameroun d'aujourd'hui en tant que phénomène…
When the Future Decides
n Contains fulltext :\n 55576.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n
On the Politics and Practice of Muslim Fertility
Recent popular works have represented Muslim fertility as dangerously high, both a cause and consequence of religious fundamentalism. This article uses comparative, statistical methods to show that this representation is empirically wrong, at least in West Africa. Although religion strongly inflects reproductive practice, its effects are not constant across different communities. In West African countries with Muslim majorities, Muslim fertility …
Natural Intentions
Many recent models of society treat certain forms of action as revealing individual intentions, aspirations, or preferences. For example, formal models of fertility decline following Henry and Coale take specific childbearing distributions to indicate "natural fertility," where couples take no intentional action to manage their reproduction. This article argues that this mode of inference can be valid only when the cultural repertoires that media…
What kind of theory for anthropological demography
This paper argues that demographic anthropology has, for most part, imported rather than exported theory. Yet, the discipline has the potential to generate important rethinking of population, culture, and their interaction. After discussing the state o
Women on the market
In this article, I show how dramatic social changes in Yaoundé, Cameroon, are the product of women applying long-standing cultural schemata in a changed economic context. Marriage rates are falling precipitously, and growing numbers of relatively elite women are looking beyond the nation's borders for husbands. Yet, as these women seek foreign husbands, their models of marriage are largely transposed out of older forms of bridewealth: E-mail-medi…
Demographic Transitions and Modernity
Much contemporary anthropology is concerned with the origin, character, and consequences of late modernity. Surprisingly absent in this literature is the importance of population size, structure, and process. In particular, the demographic transition-or historical change from a high to a low equilibrium of birth and death rates-is an important component of modernity that deserves greater anthropological engagement. This review outlines demographi…
Special Issue
Gender, Honor, and Aggregate Fertility
This article examines the tension between population-level and individual-level interests regarding childbearing, from Malthus's concern for overpopulation to the contemporary issue of son preference, and argues for an understanding of individual-level interests that distinguishes parents from households. In making this distinction, we draw attention to how gender norms can play an important role in shaping reproductive interests. Survey data and…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (7 works) · Population (7 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (6 works) · Demography (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Fertility (5 works) · Geography (5 works)