Martha J King
Biographic Data
| ID | 3977026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha J King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha J |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING M J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution
In our popular fascination with origin stories, it seems fitting to ask how a book came to be. What was the genesis of Female Genius? For Mary Sarah Bilder, Bancroft prize-winning author and law professor at Boston College, a single line in a George Washington diary from May 1787 nagged at her and, years later, became the basis for her path of discovery. Actually a work of historical recovery and furtherance, Bilder's book adopts the framework of…
Crafting an Amish biomedical landscape
Within their pluralistic system of health care, the Amish make medical decisions influenced by cultural practice: a call for adherents to separate themselves from the outside world and to yield to the group. Using ethnographic research, this article discusses one aspect of the relationship between Amish communities near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and a pediatric genetics clinic that has reformed the ways it mobilizes biomedicine in order to engage …
Compelled to Listen: The Making of an Ethnographer
Compelled to ListenThe Making of an Ethnographer Martha King (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution This is how my first memory of being an ethnographer begins. It was the first time I remember seeing through the glaze and straight into the wilderness of my southern home. The author playing dress-up on Sunday morning, ca. 1982. At seven years old I knew it wasn’t the time or place to throw off my light-yellow gingham and go charging int…
La seduzione dell'altrove by Dacia Maraini (review)
thenovel,abouttheadvantages of exile, abouttherelationship between sentiment and brutality, aboutthe decline intheneedfor art. Josipovici argues, rather abstractly ,forthenecessity ofmaintaining contact withreality. Kunderatalks aboutreal people and real issues. Josipovici's bookisbasedonlearning, Kundera's onexperience; Josipovici's onanalysis, Kundera's onsympathetic reflection. We canlisten, perhaps guardedly, toJosipovici; we feelthat we cant…
Documenting Traditions and the Ethnographic Double Bind
Documenting Traditions and the Ethnographic Double Bind Martha King (bio) The documentary short Madison County Project: Documenting the Sound (King and Roberts 2008) tells the story of two intertwined traditions: a local a cappella ballad tradition and a documentary tradition that has developed around the music. This article touches on the history of documentary making in the area, discusses the experience of attempting new fieldwork in Madison C…
The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series. Volume 5: 16 May-31 October 1803
The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series. Volume IV: 5 November 1811-9 July 1812. With a Supplement, 5 March 1809-19 October 1811
Military Genius at Work: Winning the Revolutionary War in the South
The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. Vol. V: 1 November 1779-31 May 1780
The Papers of Nathanael Greene, Volume 8, 30 March-10 July 1781
Documenting Traditions and the Ethnographic Double Bind
Documenting Traditions and the Ethnographic Double Bind Martha King (bio) The documentary short Madison County Project: Documenting the Sound (King and Roberts 2008) tells the story of two intertwined traditions: a local a cappella ballad tradition and a documentary tradition that has developed around the music. This article touches on the history of documentary making in the area, discusses the experience of attempting new fieldwork in Madison C…
Compelled to Listen: The Making of an Ethnographer
Compelled to ListenThe Making of an Ethnographer Martha King (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution This is how my first memory of being an ethnographer begins. It was the first time I remember seeing through the glaze and straight into the wilderness of my southern home. The author playing dress-up on Sunday morning, ca. 1982. At seven years old I knew it wasn’t the time or place to throw off my light-yellow gingham and go charging int…
The Papers of Nathanael Greene, Volume 8, 30 March-10 July 1781
The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. Vol. V: 1 November 1779-31 May 1780
Military Genius at Work: Winning the Revolutionary War in the South
The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series. Volume IV: 5 November 1811-9 July 1812. With a Supplement, 5 March 1809-19 October 1811
The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series. Volume 5: 16 May-31 October 1803
Documenting Traditions and the Ethnographic Double Bind
Documenting Traditions and the Ethnographic Double Bind Martha King (bio) The documentary short Madison County Project: Documenting the Sound (King and Roberts 2008) tells the story of two intertwined traditions: a local a cappella ballad tradition and a documentary tradition that has developed around the music. This article touches on the history of documentary making in the area, discusses the experience of attempting new fieldwork in Madison C…
La seduzione dell'altrove by Dacia Maraini (review)
thenovel,abouttheadvantages of exile, abouttherelationship between sentiment and brutality, aboutthe decline intheneedfor art. Josipovici argues, rather abstractly ,forthenecessity ofmaintaining contact withreality. Kunderatalks aboutreal people and real issues. Josipovici's bookisbasedonlearning, Kundera's onexperience; Josipovici's onanalysis, Kundera's onsympathetic reflection. We canlisten, perhaps guardedly, toJosipovici; we feelthat we cant…
Compelled to Listen: The Making of an Ethnographer
Compelled to ListenThe Making of an Ethnographer Martha King (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution This is how my first memory of being an ethnographer begins. It was the first time I remember seeing through the glaze and straight into the wilderness of my southern home. The author playing dress-up on Sunday morning, ca. 1982. At seven years old I knew it wasn’t the time or place to throw off my light-yellow gingham and go charging int…
Crafting an Amish biomedical landscape
Within their pluralistic system of health care, the Amish make medical decisions influenced by cultural practice: a call for adherents to separate themselves from the outside world and to yield to the group. Using ethnographic research, this article discusses one aspect of the relationship between Amish communities near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and a pediatric genetics clinic that has reformed the ways it mobilizes biomedicine in order to engage …
Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution
In our popular fascination with origin stories, it seems fitting to ask how a book came to be. What was the genesis of Female Genius? For Mary Sarah Bilder, Bancroft prize-winning author and law professor at Boston College, a single line in a George Washington diary from May 1787 nagged at her and, years later, became the basis for her path of discovery. Actually a work of historical recovery and furtherance, Bilder's book adopts the framework of…
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