Name: Allen Johnson
Office: Department of Anthropology
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1553
Tel: (310) 825 1437
Fax: (310) 478-1235
e-mail: ajohnson@ucla.edu
Academic Training
1959-1963 University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Anthropology, June 1963
1964-1968 Stanford University
M.A., Anthropology, June 1965
Ph.D., Anthropology, June 1968
1977-1992 Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute
Ph.D., Psychoanalysis, March 1992
Field Work
Summer 1965
Stanford Summer Field Training Program, Oaxaca, Mexico.
August 1966-
Boa Ventura, Ceara, Brazil; Ph.D. Dissertation Research.
August 1967
June 1972-
Cultural Ecology of Machiguenga Indians, Peruvian Amazon (18 months in
four visits).
August 1980
July 1988-
Re-study of Fazenda Boa Ventura, Ceara, Brazil.
July 1989
Teaching Experience
Summer 1968 Acting Instructor, Stanford University.
1968-1975 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University.
Summer 1970 Faculty Associate, University of Hawaii Training
Program in Human Ecology, Kohala, Hawaii.
1975-1980 Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of
California, Los Angeles.
1980-1988 Professor of Anthropology, University
of California, Los Angeles.
1988-present Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, University
of California, Los Angeles.
Teaching Interests
Cultural Ecology/Social Evolution
Research Design
Psychological Anthropology
Native South America
Latin American Communities
Administrative Experience
Summer 1969 Deputy Chair, Anthropology, Columbia University.
1972-1975 Director, NIMH Training Program in Social Anthropology, Columbia University.
1976-1978 Director, NIMH Training Program in Behavioral Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles.
1978-1980 Chair, Campus Wide Health Services Research Committee,
University of California, Los Angeles.
1980-1981 Chair, Selection Committee, International Doctoral
Fellowship Program for Latin American, Social Science Research Council.
1984-1987 Chair, Committee on Social Science Computer Laboratories,
UCLA.
1987-1991 Chair, Department of Anthropology, UCLA.
1990-1994 Member-at-Large (elected), Executive Committee of
Anthropology, Section H, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
1995-1999 Member (elected), Board of Directors, Society for Psychological Anthropology
1997-2001 Chair, Latin American Studies Program, UCLA
Honors
1992 Outstanding Thesis Award, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute
1998 L. Bryce Boyer Prize, Outstanding Publication in Psychoanalytic
Anthropology, Society for Psychological Anthropology,
for Oedipus Ubiquitous
(w/ Douglass Price-Williams)
1998 Annual Robert J. Stoller Foundation Memorial Lecture,
October 16, 1998
Fellowships and Grants
1965-1967 National Science Foundation, Graduate Fellowship
1967-1968 Agricultural Development Council, dissertation research
grant (B.J. Siegel, Principal Investigator)
July 1969 Columbia Council for Research in the Social Sciences:
"Computer processing of ecological data;" "Patron client relations in rural
Latin America."
July 1971 Columbia CRSS: "Computer simulation of swidden agriculture."
1972-1976 National Science Foundation, Faculty Research Grant:
"Ethno ecological field study among Machiguenga Indians of the Peruvian
Amazon."
1972-1975 Director, NIMH Graduate Training Program Columbia
University.
1976-1978 Director, NIMH Graduate Training Program, UCLA.
1976-1978 National Science Foundation, Faculty Research Fellowship:
Postdoctoral study in psychological anthropology (summers)
1977-1978 National Institute of Mental Health, Faculty Research
Fellowship: Postdoctoral study in psychological anthropology (academic
year)
1977-1979 Research Clinical Associate, Southern California Psychoanalytic
Institute. 3 year stipend.
1994-1999 National Science Foundation Master’s Level Research Training Grant (co-PI)
1977-2002 UCLA Academic Senate Small Grants each year.
Professional Organizations
American Anthropological Association (fellow)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (fellow)
American Ethnological Society
Society for Psychological Anthropology
Publications
Books and Monographs:
1971 Sharecroppers of the Sertao: Economics and Dependence
on a Brazilian Plantation. Stanford, Stanford University Press
1978 Quantification in Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction
to Ethnographic Research Design. Stanford, Stanford University
Press
1982 Contemporary Health Services: Social Science Perspectives.
Boston: Auburn House. (Edited, with Oscar Grusky and Bertram Raven).
1987 (with Timothy Earle) The Evolution of Human Societies:
From Foraging Group to Agrarian State. Stanford, Stanford University Press
1987 (With Orna R. Johnson) Time Allocation Among the
Machiguenga of Shimaa. In, Allen Johnson, ed., Cross Cultural Studies in
Time Allocation, Vol. I.
New Haven: Human Relations Area Files
1992 Is the Oedipus Complex Universal?
New Evidence from World Folk Literature. Ph.D. Thesis, Southern California
Psychoanalytic Institute. Los Angeles.
1996 (with Douglass Price-Williams) Oedipus Ubiquitous: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
2000 (with Timothy Earle) The Evolution of Human Societies, 2d Edition. Stanford: Stanford University Press (in press).
2003 Families of the Forest: the Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon. Berkeley: University of California Press (in press).
Articles:
1969 (with B. J. Siegel) Wages and Income in Ceara, Brazil.
Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 25:1 13.
1971 Security and Risk Taking Among Poor Peasants: A Brazilian
Case. In, G. Dalton, ed., Studies in Economic Anthropology.
Anthropological Studies,
Vol. 7. Washington, D.C. American Anthropological Association.
1972 Individuality and Experimentation in Traditional
Agriculture. Human Ecology 1:149 159
1974 Ethnoecology and Planting Practices in a Swidden
Agricultural System. American Ethnologist 1:87 101.
(with G. Bond) Kinship, Friendship, and Exchange in Two Communities: A
Comparative Analysis of Norms and Behavior. Journal of Anthropological
Research 30:55 68.
1975 Time Allocation in a Machiguenga Community.
Ethnology 14:301 310.
(with O. Johnson) Male/Female Relations and the Organization of Work
in a Machiguenga Community. American Ethnologist 2:634 648.
1977 The Energy Costs of Technology in a Changing Environment:
A Machiguenga Case. In, H., Lechtman and R. Merrill, eds., Material Culture:
Styles,
Organization, and Dynamics of Technology. 1975 Proceedings of the Annual
Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society. St. Paul, West
.
(with E. Montgomery) Machiguenga Energy Expenditure. Ecology of Food and
Nutrition 6:97 105.
1978 In Search of the Affluent Society. Human Nature
(September), pp. 50 59.
1980 The Limits of Formalism in Agricultural Decision
Research. In, P. Barlett, ed., Agricultural Decision Making.
New York: Academic Press.
1982 Reductionism in Cultural Ecology: The Amazon Case.
Current Anthropology 23:413 428.
(with C. Behrens) Nutritional Criteria in Machiguenga Food Production Decisions:
A Linear Programming Analysis. Human Ecology 10:167 189.
Nonreductionistic Cultural Ecology. In, John G. Kennedy and Robert
B. Edgerton, eds., Culture and Ecology: Eclectic Perspectives.
Wash. D.C.:
American Anthropological Association.
1983 Machiguenga Gardens. In, Raymond B. Hames and
William T. Vickers, eds., Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians.
New York: Academic Press.
1986 (with O. Johnson and M. Baksh) The Colors of Emotions
in Machiguenga, American Anthropologist 88:674 681.
(with H.R. Bernard, P.J. Pelto, O. Werner, J. Boster, A.K. Romney, C.R.
Ember, and A. Kasakoff) The Construction of Primary Data in Cultural
Anthropology. Current Anthropology 27:382 396.
1987 The Death of Ethnography: Has Anthropology Betrayed
its Mission? The Sciences (March/April)
(with
M. Baksh) Ecological and Structural Influences on the Proportions
of Wild Foods in the Diets of Two Machiguenga Communities.
In, Marvin Harris
and Eric B. Ross, eds. Food and Evolution: Toward a Theory
of Human Food Habits. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press.
1988 (with O. Johnson) Oedipus in the Political Economy:
Theme and Variations in Amazonia. In, Richard P. Randolph, David
M. Schneider, and May N.
Diaz, eds., Dialectics and Gender: Anthropological Approaches.
Boulder, CO: Westview.
1989 How the Machiguenga Manage Resources: Conservation
or Exploitation of Nature? In, D.A. Posey and W. Balee, eds., Resource
Management in
Amazonia: Indigenous and Folk Strategies. New York: New York Botanical
Society.
Horticulturalists: Economic Behavior in Tribes. In, S. Plattner, ed., Economic Anthropology. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Pp., 49-77.
(with
C. Behrens) Time Allocation Research and Aspects of Method in Cross-Cultural
Research. J. Quantitativew Anthropology I: 313-334. (Special
Issue in Honor of E.B. Tylor.)
1990 (with O. Johnson) Quality into Quantity:
On the Measurement Potential of Ethnographic Fieldnotes. In, Roger
Sanjek, ed., Fieldnotes: The Makings of
Anthrlopology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
(with
M. Baksh) Insurance Policies Among the Machiguenga: An Ethnographic
Analysis of Risk Management in Nonwestern Society. In, Elizabeth
Cashdan, ed., Risk and Uncertainty in Tribal and Peasant Societies.
Boulder, CO: Westview.
Time
Allocation Research: The Costs and Benefits of Alternative Methods.
In Beatrice Lorge Rogers and Nina P. Schlossman, eds. Intra-Household
Resource Allocation: Issues and Methods for Development Policy and
Planning. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.
1991 Regional Primary Comparative Research. Behavior Science Research 25. (Special Volume, "Cross-Cultural and Comparative Research.")
1992 Psychoanalysis and Materialism. In, David Spain, ed., Psychoanalytic Anthropology After Freud. New York: Psyche Press.
1995 Explanation and Ground Truth: The Place of Cultural
Materialism in Scientific Anthropology. In, Martin F. Murphy and
Maxine L. Margolis, eds., Science,
Materialism, and the Study of Culture. Gainesville: University
Press of Florida.
1995 A Guttman Scale Analysis of Matsigenka Men's Manufacturing Skills. Cultural Anthropology Methods 7:1-3, 12.
1996 (with O. Johnson) Matsigenka. Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. 7, ed. D. Levinson. Boston: G. K. Hall.
1996 Time Allocation. Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files.
1996 Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: Bridging Science
and the Humanities. In, Jacques Szaluta and Laurie Adams, eds.
Psychoanalysis and the Humanities.
New York: Brunner/Mazel.
1997 The Psychology of Dependence Between Landlord and
Sharecropper in Northeastern Brazil. In J. Duckitt
and S Renshon, eds. Culture and
Cross-Cultural Dimensions of Political Psychology.
Political Psychology 18:411-38.
1998 Repression: A Reexamination of the Concept as Applied to Folktales. Ethos 26:295-313.
1998 (with Ross Sackett) Direct Systematic Observation
of Behavior. In, H. R. Bernard, ed. Handbook of Method
in Cultural Anthropology. Walnut Creek,
CA: Altamira Press, pp. 301-331.
1999 Political Consciousness on Boa Ventura: 1967
and 1989 Compared. In, J. Bowen and R. Petersen, eds. Critical
Comparisons in Politics and Culture.
New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, pp. 173-195.
2000 The Political Unconscious: Politics and
Stories in Two South American Cultures. In, S. Renshon
and J. Duckitt, eds., Political Psychology: Cultural and
Crosscultural Foundations. London: MacMillan, pp. 159-181.
Articles Reprinted:
Ethnoecology and Planting Practices in a Swidden Agricultural
System [1978]. In, Brokensha, D. Warren, and O. Werner, eds., Indigenous
Knowledge Systems and Development.
Individuality and Experimentation in Traditional Agriculture
[1972]. In, B. Crouch and S. Chamala, (eds.), Extension Education
and Rural Development, Wiley.
In Search of the Affluent Society [1978]. In Dutch, in Kijk.
In Search of the Affluent Society [1978]. In, J. Spradley,
(ed.) Conformity and Conflict.
In Search of the Affluent Society [1978]. In, A. Podolefsky
and P. J. Brown, Applying Cultural Anthropology (1994).
Reductionism in Cultural Ecology: The Amazon Case [1982].
In, Herbert Applebaum, ed., Perspectives in Cultural Anthropology.
Book Reviews, Bibliographies, Comments:
1971 Latin American Peasant Movements, H. Landsberger.
Political Science Quarterly.
Bibliography on Computer Applications in Anthropology,Computers and the
Humanities 5:235 6.
Review of Brazil, T.L. Smith. The Foreign Affairs 50 year Bibliography,
N.Y., R. R. Bowker.
1972 Review of The Raft Fisherman, S. Forman. Economic
Development and Cultural Change 20:767 769.
1977 "Progress Costs Too Much," Review of J. Bennett,
The Ecological Transition, Reviews in Anthropology 4:115 120.
1978 Review of The Brazilian Peasantry, S. Forman. Journal
of Social History 11:447 449.
1978 Comment on E. Ross, Food Taboos, Diet, and Hunting
Strategy. Current Anthropology 19:21.
Comment on M. Nag et al, Economic Value of Children. Current Anthropology
19:302.
1980 Essays and Polemics: Latin American Society from
Diverse Perspectives. Comparative Studies in Society and History.
1980 Comment on W. Minge Klevana, Does Labor Time Increase
with Industrialization? Current Anthropology 21:241.
1981 Review of The Innovator's Situation, F. Cancian.
American Anthropologist 83:182 184
1984 Comment on D. Westin, "Cultural Materialism: Food
for Thought or Bum Steer?" Current Anthropology 25:639 653
Comment on R. Bolton, "The Hypoglycemia Aggression Hypothesis: Debate
versus Research." Current Anthropology 25:33.
1988 (with T. Earle) Review of R. Glassman, Democracy
and Despotism in Primitive Societies. American J. Sociology 716 719.
1990 Review of T. Nishizawa, ed. Agricultural Land Use
and Transformation of Ecosystems in the Semi Arid Region, Northeast Brazil.
American Anthropologist
92:218-219.
1993 Review of K. Redford and C. Padoch, Conservation of Neotropical Forests: Working from Traditional Resource Use. American Anthropologist 95:38-9.
1995 Review of S. Kurtz, All the Mothers are One. Psychoanalytic Psychology 12:457-61.
1997 Review of R. Paul, Moses and Civilization. American
Anthropologist 99: 49-50.
Monograph Series:
I am director of the UCLA Time Allocation Project, and editor of the series, Cross-Cultural Studies in Time Allocation. The monographs are published by the Human Relations Area Files, Inc., of New Haven, Connecticut. Monographs in the series are:
Vol. I A. Johnson and O. R. Johnson, Time Allocation among the Machiguenga of Shimaa. 1988.
Vol. II M. Paolisso and R. D. Sackett, Time Allocation among the Yukpa of Yurmutu. 1988.
Vol. III R. C. Bailey and N. R. Peacock, Time Allocation of Efe Pygmy Men and Women of the Ituri Forest, Zaire. 1988.
Vol. IV C. A. Behrens, Time Allocation among the Shipibo of Nuevo Eden. 1988.
Vol. V R. L. Munroe and R. H. Munroe, Logoli Time Allocation. 1989.
Vol. VI R. L. and R. H. Munroe, Black Carib Time Allocation. 1990.
Vol. VII M. G. Baksh, Time Allocation among the Machiguenga of Camana. 1990
Vol. VIII R. L. Munroe and R. H. Munroe, Samoan Time Allocation. 1990.
Vol. IX D. Werner, Time Allocation among the Mekranoti-Kayapo. 1993.
Vol. X R. Hames, Time Allocation among the Yekwana. 1993.
Vol. XI J. Weil, Time Allocation among Bolivian Quechua Coca Cultivators. 1993.
Vol. XII R. H. Munroe and R. L. Munroe, Newar Time Allocation. 1997.
Vol. XIII G. Smith, Time Allocation among the Madurese of Gedang-Gedang. 1995.
Vol. IX M. Borgerhoff-Mulder, A. T. Kerr, and M. Moore, Time Allocation
among the Kipsigis of Kenya. 1997.