- AU PMB MS 1251
- Collection
- 1965-1972
In the 1960s Joan Dirkone Johnstone (as Josephine Whiteman) worked as a nutritionist with Susan Holmes and Susan Parkinson in the South Pacific Health Service in PNG in the 1960s and did significant work in this field (working with Dr K. Vern Bailey) in both Simbu and Wosera/Maprik. From the start she was interested in matters social/cultural and in 1970 changed over from nutrition to anthroplogy, after studying at Sydney and Cambridge, completing her MA thesis, A study of Chimbu conjugal relationships, at the University of NSW in 1972, a version of which was published in the New Guinea Research Bulletin (No.52). Dr Johnstone continued working in the Health Service in PNG until the beginning of 1975. In the early 1970s she surveyed high school students in Port Moresby on their attitudes towards marriage and prostitution and later produced a thesis on Simbu/Gumine sex workers in Moresby (Johnstone, J.D. 1993. The Gumini Bisnis-Meri : a study of the development of an innovative indigenous entrepreneurial activity in Port Moresby in the early 1970s, PhD thesis, Brisbane, University of Queensland, 373pp.) which includes interesting work on the Five Mile and Six Mile squatter settlements in Port Moresby.
• Josephine, Whiteman, A Study of Chimbu Conjugal Relationships, MA thesis, University of NSW.
• Bibliography of works by Joan Johnstone (formerly Josephine Whiteman) compiled by Robin Hide, 2005. Ts., 1p.
• Whiteman, J. A comparative study of dietary change patterns in the Chimbu and Trobriand islands, n.d. Ts., p/c, 2pp.
• Whiteman, J. An investigation into the suggestion that people of the Eastern Highlands are beginning to give up growing sweet potatoes, and using rice and tinned fish in increasing amounts as a means of sustenance, n.d. Ts., p/c, 7pp.
• Whiteman, J. A study of the dietary habits of a north Wosera village in the Territory of Papua-New Guinea. Food and Nutrition Notes and Reviews, 1965, 22(7,8), 68-75.
• Whiteman, J. A study of beliefs and attitudes towards food in a New Guinea low-cost housing settlement. Tropical and Geographical Medicine, 1966, 18(2), 157-166.
Johnstone, Joan (formerly Josephine Whiteman)