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Jean Bassett Johnson
Trip to the Mazateca (Oaxaca, Mexico) in 1938.
Born(1915-09-07)September 7, 1915
DiedApril 4, 1944(1944-04-04) (aged 28)
Cause of deathKilled in action
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
SpouseIrmgard Weitlaner
Scientific career
FieldsLinguistics, Anthropology
Academic advisorsAlfred Kroeber and Robert Lowie

Jean Bassett Johnson (September 7, 1915 – April 4, 1944) was an American anthropologist and linguist who conducted field studies in Mexico during the 1930s and early 1940s. A doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, he was a student of Alfred Kroeber and Robert Lowie.

Life and career[edit]

Johnson carried out field research among the Chinantec and Mazatec in Oaxaca, the Nahuatl in Jalisco and Colima, and the Yaqui, Varohio, Pima and Opata in Sonora. In July 1938, in Huautla de Jimenez, he and his wife, anthropologist Irmgard Weitlaner-Johnson, along with Bernard Bevan and Louise Lacaud, were some of the first outsiders, in addition to Robert J. Weitlaner (1936), to witness and record a Mazatec healing ceremony where hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms (teonanacatl) were consumed.[1] During the course of his research on Mazatec healing practices, Johnson also recorded the use of another hallucinogen, “hierba Maria” now known to be Salvia divinorum. In 1939-1940, under the direction of Morris Swadesh, Johnson conducted a study of the Yaqui language, published posthumously.

Johnson's studies were interrupted by the Second World War. He joined the United States Naval Reserve in 1942 and died in Tunisia in 1944.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Wasson, Valentina Pavlovna and R. Gordon Wasson. 1957. Mushrooms, Russia and History. Vol II. New York: Pantheon Books. pp. 237-238. OCLC 319942

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