Allen Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allen Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allen |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 485 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1921 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Quality into Quantity: On the Measurement Potential of Ethnographic Fieldnotes
The Children’s Aid Society: Early Origins of Youth Empowerment in the US Foster Care System or Paternalistic Prevention
The Children’s Aid Society (CAS) was founded in 1853 to help impoverished and orphaned children. In the process of fulfilling its mission, CAS may have unwittingly planted some of the first participatory seeds that grew into youth empowerment, elements of which were eventually incorporated into parts of the modern US foster care system. Specific empowering aspects of CAS’s include (1) providing asset-building opportunities, (2) adult facilitation…
The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State (an excerpt)
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…
Desire, Envy and Punishment: A Matsigenka Emotion Schema in Illness Narratives and Folk Stories
A non-destructive technique for measuring ceramic porosity using liquid nitrogen
Families of the Forest: The Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon
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…
Families of the Forest: The Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon
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: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State, Second Edition
Political consciousness on Boa Ventura: 1967 And 1989 Compared
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: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature
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: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature
Repression: A Reexamination of the Concept as Applied to Folktales
Psychoanalytic anthropologists assume that folktales often reflect unconscious beliefs and attitudes of listeners, who can tolerate anxiety-provoking images and messages (perhaps wish fulfillments) because these have been projected at a safe distance into the characters in the story. Here I argue that our theory for how such a process occurs is inadequate in terms of contemporary psychoanalytic theory. We need to reexamine a number of questions f…
The Psychology of Dependence Between Landlord and Sharecropper in Northeastern Brazil
Contrasting beliefs and attitudes held by sharecroppers and their landlord on a fazenda in Northeastern Brazil reveal a tendency to split one another into positively and negatively idealized images. Sharecroppers who ambivalently seek patronage construct good vs. bad landlords/patrons. The landlord, defensive about envy and hostility among sharecroppers, constructs good vs. bad tenants/workers. Theory from the Kleinian school of psychoanalysis co…
Moses and Civilization: The Meaning behind Freud's Myth
Moses and Civilization: The Meaning behind Freud's Myth. Robert A. Paul. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.268 pp
A Guttman Scale Analysis of Matsigenka Men's Manufacturing Skills
Ecopoly — A Simulation Game
Applied Anthropology: Conservation of Neotropical Forests: Working from Traditional Resource Use . Kent H. Redford and Christine Padoch , eds
Regional Comparative Field Research
Archeology: Agricultural Land Use and Transformation of Ecosystems in the Semi‐Arid Region, Northeast Brazil . T. Nishizawa , ed
Democracy and Despotism in Primitive Societies: A Neo-Weberian Approach to Political Theory. Ronald M. Glassman
The Colors of Emotions in Machiguenga
The Construction of Primary Data in Cultural Anthropology
Carrying Capacity and Population Regulation: A Comment on Dewar
The Hypoglycemia-Aggression Hypothesis: Debate versus Research [and Comments and Reply]
In a critical evaluation of work by Ralph Bolton on the relationship between hypoglycemia and aggression among the Qolla of Peru, Ted Lewellen has argued that the Qolla are not highly aggressive, that they have been the victims of pseudoscientific stereotyping and prejudice, that they are not especially prone to problems in glucose homeostasis, and that whatever aggression they display can be explained in large part by their consumption of alcoho…
The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State, Second Edition
Food Taboos, Diet, and Hunting Strategy: The Adaptation to Animals in Amazon Cultural Ecology [and Comments and Reply]
The issue of food prohibitions on such Amazonian game animals as deer is examined from an ecological perspective, in contrast to previous symbolic or structuralist views on this subject. Examined in conjunction with settlement pattern, technology, animal behavior, and habitat productivity, which together determine the food-extraction potential of a population, the avoidance of certain inherently edible species by characterizing them as inebible i…
An Anthropological Approach to the Study of the Economic Value of Children in Java and Nepal [and Comments and Reply]
This paper seeks to test the assumption of the microeconomic theory of fertility that the economic value of children is a factor influencing fertility behavior of parents in peasant societies. On the basis of anthropological investigation in one village in Java and one in Nepal, the average amount of time spent by children in different types of activities-both household-maintenance and directly productive-is estimated directly. The support provid…
Time Allocation in a Machiguenga Community
Does Labor Time Decrease With Industrialization? A Survey of Time-Allocation Studies [and Comments and Reply]
Theoretical debate on the evolution of human labor is addressed in this paper. In particular, the direction of change in family labor time from preindustrial food production to postindustrial wage labor is examined through a survey of time-allocation studies. The research is concerned not only with the quantitative results of the studies, but also with their methodological construction, in particular, the ethnographers' definition of labor. Unlik…
The Construction of Primary Data in Cultural Anthropology
Ethnoecology and Planting Practices in a Swidden Agricultural System1
Two sets of data on slash-and-bum agriculture in Northeast Brazil are compared. The first constitutes a cognitive paradigm of land types and the rules stating which crops "like" which lands best. The second shows the actual outcomes, for forty-four agriculturalists, of planting specific crops in specific land types. The cognitive model predicts the direction in which actual planting behavior deviates from randomness, although many interesting exc…
Reductionism in Cultural Ecology: The Amazon Case [and Comments and Reply]
Cultural ecologists attempting to trace the influence of ecological scarcities on cultural development are often criticized for reductionism. In the Amazon case, critics of ecological theories have argued that resource scarcity is of minor importance as a determinant of cultural features because native communities appear to enjoy abundant land and fully nutritious diets. This paper presents data and arguments suggesting that much of this "resourc…
Male/female relations and the organization of work in a Machiguenga community1
This paper emphasizes the organization of work as a major determinant of male/female relations. It describes, for the Machiguenga, the degree of solidarity or separation experienced by each sex in the work process and their relative authority over the social disposal of the products of work. Comparisons are made with other Lowland South American groups
The Hypoglycemia-Aggression Hypothesis: Debate versus Research [and Comments and Reply]
In a critical evaluation of work by Ralph Bolton on the relationship between hypoglycemia and aggression among the Qolla of Peru, Ted Lewellen has argued that the Qolla are not highly aggressive, that they have been the victims of pseudoscientific stereotyping and prejudice, that they are not especially prone to problems in glucose homeostasis, and that whatever aggression they display can be explained in large part by their consumption of alcoho…
Repression: A Reexamination of the Concept as Applied to Folktales
Psychoanalytic anthropologists assume that folktales often reflect unconscious beliefs and attitudes of listeners, who can tolerate anxiety-provoking images and messages (perhaps wish fulfillments) because these have been projected at a safe distance into the characters in the story. Here I argue that our theory for how such a process occurs is inadequate in terms of contemporary psychoanalytic theory. We need to reexamine a number of questions f…
The Colors of Emotions in Machiguenga
Oedipus ubiquitous: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature
Kinship, Friendship, and Exchange in Two Communities: A Comparative Analysis of Norms and Behavior
Normative expectations concerning the exchange of goods and services within a community do not necessarily correspond to the observed outcomes of exchange events, and may even contradict them to some degree. Descriptions of exchange which stress norms tend to exaggerate the "structural constraints" at the expense of the "individual decision-making" aspects of the phenomenon. The failure to keep these two aspects of social life distinct has been r…
Cultural Materialism: Food for Thought or Bum Steer? [and Comments and Replies]
In its specific theories Harris's cultural materialism has often proven illuminating. As a model of and method for studying culture, however, it is seriously flawed. One of the dilemmas it faces is the conflict between its epistemology and the assumption of infrastructural determinism: if empirical science is a superstructural concomitant of a particular infrastructure, then it can be neither more valid than any other view norcausally or practica…
Carrying Capacity and Population Regulation: A Comment on Dewar
The Psychology of Dependence Between Landlord and Sharecropper in Northeastern Brazil
Contrasting beliefs and attitudes held by sharecroppers and their landlord on a fazenda in Northeastern Brazil reveal a tendency to split one another into positively and negatively idealized images. Sharecroppers who ambivalently seek patronage construct good vs. bad landlords/patrons. The landlord, defensive about envy and hostility among sharecroppers, constructs good vs. bad tenants/workers. Theory from the Kleinian school of psychoanalysis co…
The Historian and Historical Evidence
The Historian and Historical Evidence. By Allen Johnson. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. 179 pp. $2.) Get access Homer C. Hockett Homer C. Hockett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 13, Issue 3, December 1926, Pages 411–413, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893115 Published: 01 December 1926
A non-destructive technique for measuring ceramic porosity using liquid nitrogen
Obituaries
Moses and Civilization: The Meaning behind Freud's Myth
Moses and Civilization: The Meaning behind Freud's Myth. Robert A. Paul. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.268 pp
Regional Comparative Field Research
Democracy and Despotism in Primitive Societies: A Neo-Weberian Approach to Political Theory. Ronald M. Glassman
Pioneers of the Old Southwest
Pioneers of the old southwest. A chronicle of the dark and bloody ground. By Constance L. Skinner. [The chronicles of America. Edited by Allen Johnson under the supervision of the committee on publications of the Yale university council] (New Haven: Yale university press, 1919. 304 p. $3.50) Get access Archibald Henderson Archibald Henderson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volu…
The Agrarian Crusade A chronicled of the farmer in politics
Journal Article The agrarian crusade. A chronicle of the farmer in politics. By Solon Justus Buck, Ph.D. [The chronicles of America. Edited by Allen Johnson under the supervision of the committee on publication of the Yale university council] (New Haven: Yale university press, 1920. 215 p.) Get access Louis Bernard Schmidt Louis Bernard Schmidt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, V…
The Historian and Historical Evidence
The Historian and Historical Evidence. By Allen Johnson. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. 179 pp. $2.) Get access Homer C. Hockett Homer C. Hockett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 13, Issue 3, December 1926, Pages 411–413, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893115 Published: 01 December 1926
Dictionary of American Biography
The Dictionary of American Biography
Dictionary of American Biography. Vols. V and VI
Journal Article Dictionary of American Biography. Edited by Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone. Vols. V and VI. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930–31. Vol. V, 616 pp. Vol. VI, 604 pp. $12.50 each.) Get access M. M. Quaife M. M. Quaife Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 18, Issue 1, June 1931, Pages 65–68, https://doi.org/10.2307/1897438 Published: 01 June 1931
Introduction to the Study of History
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: Tradition and Change in the Brazilian Peasant Economy. Shepard Forman
Kinship, Friendship, and Exchange in Two Communities: A Comparative Analysis of Norms and Behavior
Normative expectations concerning the exchange of goods and services within a community do not necessarily correspond to the observed outcomes of exchange events, and may even contradict them to some degree. Descriptions of exchange which stress norms tend to exaggerate the "structural constraints" at the expense of the "individual decision-making" aspects of the phenomenon. The failure to keep these two aspects of social life distinct has been r…
Ethnoecology and Planting Practices in a Swidden Agricultural System1
Two sets of data on slash-and-bum agriculture in Northeast Brazil are compared. The first constitutes a cognitive paradigm of land types and the rules stating which crops "like" which lands best. The second shows the actual outcomes, for forty-four agriculturalists, of planting specific crops in specific land types. The cognitive model predicts the direction in which actual planting behavior deviates from randomness, although many interesting exc…
Time Allocation in a Machiguenga Community
Male/female relations and the organization of work in a Machiguenga community1
This paper emphasizes the organization of work as a major determinant of male/female relations. It describes, for the Machiguenga, the degree of solidarity or separation experienced by each sex in the work process and their relative authority over the social disposal of the products of work. Comparisons are made with other Lowland South American groups
Machiguenga energy expenditure
This article presents the results of a study of energy expended at typical activities and on average days, by adult women and men of a hunter‐gatherer‐horticulturalist population in south‐eastern Peru. Marked differences between the sexes in patterns of energy use are presented. The men tended to work at higher rates of energy expenditure than did the women. On the average day, representative of all activities in an annual cycle, the women expend…
Progress costs too much
John W. Bennett. The Ecological Transition: Cultural Anthropology and Human Adaptation. New York: Pergamon Press, 1976. 378 pp. Figures, references and index. $9.50 paper
Food Taboos, Diet, and Hunting Strategy: The Adaptation to Animals in Amazon Cultural Ecology [and Comments and Reply]
The issue of food prohibitions on such Amazonian game animals as deer is examined from an ecological perspective, in contrast to previous symbolic or structuralist views on this subject. Examined in conjunction with settlement pattern, technology, animal behavior, and habitat productivity, which together determine the food-extraction potential of a population, the avoidance of certain inherently edible species by characterizing them as inebible i…
An Anthropological Approach to the Study of the Economic Value of Children in Java and Nepal [and Comments and Reply]
This paper seeks to test the assumption of the microeconomic theory of fertility that the economic value of children is a factor influencing fertility behavior of parents in peasant societies. On the basis of anthropological investigation in one village in Java and one in Nepal, the average amount of time spent by children in different types of activities-both household-maintenance and directly productive-is estimated directly. The support provid…
Essays and Polemics: Latin American Society from Diverse Perspectives. A Review Article
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Does Labor Time Decrease With Industrialization? A Survey of Time-Allocation Studies [and Comments and Reply]
Theoretical debate on the evolution of human labor is addressed in this paper. In particular, the direction of change in family labor time from preindustrial food production to postindustrial wage labor is examined through a survey of time-allocation studies. The research is concerned not only with the quantitative results of the studies, but also with their methodological construction, in particular, the ethnographers' definition of labor. Unlik…
General and Theoretical: The Innovator's Situation: Upper-Middle-Class Conservatism in Agricultural Communities. Frank Cancian
Nutritional criteria in machiguenga food production decisions: A linear-programming analysis
Reductionism in Cultural Ecology: The Amazon Case [and Comments and Reply]
Cultural ecologists attempting to trace the influence of ecological scarcities on cultural development are often criticized for reductionism. In the Amazon case, critics of ecological theories have argued that resource scarcity is of minor importance as a determinant of cultural features because native communities appear to enjoy abundant land and fully nutritious diets. This paper presents data and arguments suggesting that much of this "resourc…
Contemporary Health Services: Social Science Perspectives
The Hypoglycemia-Aggression Hypothesis: Debate versus Research [and Comments and Reply]
In a critical evaluation of work by Ralph Bolton on the relationship between hypoglycemia and aggression among the Qolla of Peru, Ted Lewellen has argued that the Qolla are not highly aggressive, that they have been the victims of pseudoscientific stereotyping and prejudice, that they are not especially prone to problems in glucose homeostasis, and that whatever aggression they display can be explained in large part by their consumption of alcoho…
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