Karen Sacks
Biographic Data
| ID | 84554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Sacks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Sacks |
| SIGNATURE | SACKS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2832-810X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 315 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
"Introduction to the Special Issue of Religions-"Transcendentalism and the Religious Experience
In his 1837 oration "The American Scholar," Emerson demanded that, above all
Auguste Comte and Consensus Formation in American Religious Thought-Part 1: The Creation of Consensus
French intellectual Auguste Comte was the most influential sociologist and philosopher of science in the Nineteenth Century. This first of two articles summarizes his complex life's works and details reactions to them by Transcendentalists and Unitarians, from its American introduction in 1837 until just after the Civil War. Using public speeches and published essays, the article analyzes the ways in which intellectuals supported and criticized C…
Auguste Comte and Consensus Formation in American Religious Thought-Part 2: Twilight of New England Comtism
Auguste Comte was the most influential sociologist and philosopher of science in the Nineteenth Century. Part 1 summarized his works and analyzed reactions to them by Transcendentalists and Unitarians from 1837 until just after the Civil War. Part 2 examines in detail the post-war Transcendentalist and liberal Unitarian institutions of the Free Religious Association and the Radical Club and their different approaches to spiritual faith based on i…
Stoicism in America
Beyond a Dream Deferred: Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence
Hear My Testimony: Maria Teresa Tula, Human Rights Activist of El Salvador. Lynn STEPHEN, trans. and ed
Response to Anna Grimshaw and Keith Hart's 'Anthropology and the Crisis of the Intellectuals
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness. Ruth Frankenberg
Cicero and the Roman Republic
Cicero's antecedents and youth the apprentice years first cases, a crisis and a grand tour quaestor - the first appointment the prosecution of Verres from aedile to praetor the battle for the consulship the consulship the turning-point on the defensive exile and return under the sway of the Triumvirate the governorship of Cilicia the Civil War the philosopher under Caesar's dictatorship the Ides of March the final battle for the republic defeat a…
Euro-Ethnic Working-Class Women's Community Culture
L'A. defini la conception de la culture communautaire chez les femmes de la classe ouvriere en Europe au tournant du 20 e siecle. Il s'interesse a la facon dont les femmes immigrees, notamment juives et italiennes, ont faconne leur propre conception de la feminite, de la reciprocite et des responsabilites « domestiques » a un niveau public (voisinage) a partir de leurs cultures ethniques et en opposition avec les valeurs et les pratiques de la cu…
Putting the Camps into Ucla's Curriculum
(1993). Putting the Camps into UCLA's Curriculum. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 139-152
Reply to Richard Keeling
Civilization in Crisis: Essays in Honor of Stanley Diamond, Anthropological Perspectives, Vol. 1
Anthropology, Imperialism and Resistance: The Work of Kathleen Gough
In November 1991 a group of friends and colleagues of Kathleen Gough came together at the meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Chicago at a symposium titled Anthropology, Imperialism and Resistance: The Work of Kathleen Gough. Six months later a similar group convened at the Canadian Anthropology Society annual meetings in Montreal in May of 1992. This special issue is the result of both symposia.(f.2) Although Kathleen Gough w…
Diodorus Siculus and the First Century.
Feminism and Anthropology
Feminism and anthropology - the story of a relationship gender and status - explaining the position of women understanding women's work - kinship, labour and household I the changing nature of women's lives - kinship, labour and household II women and the state feminist anthropology - what difference does it make
Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: A History of Hospital Workers' Union, Local 1199
Journal Article Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: A History of Hospital Workers' Union, Local 1199. By Leon Fink and Brian Greenberg. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. xviii + 298 pp. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $9.95.) Get access Karen Brodkin Sacks Karen Brodkin Sacks University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Page 361,…
Diodorus Siculus and the First Century
Living in Rome during the last years of the Republic, Diodorus of Sicily produced the most expansive history of the ancient world that has survived from antiquity--the Bibliotheke. Whereas Diodorus himself has been commonly seen as a "mere copyist" of earlier historical traditions, Kenneth Sacks explores the complexity of his work to reveal a historian with a distinct point of view indicative of his times. Sacks focuses on three areas of Diodorus…
Beyond the Double Day: Work and Family in Working-Class Women's Lives
Caring by the Hour: Women, Work and Organizing at Duke Medical Center
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Marriage and Inequality in Classless Societies. Jane Fishburne Collier
Patriarchy and Class: African Women in the Home and the Workforce
Caring by the Hour: Women, Work, and Organizing at Duke Medical Center
Caring by the Hour: Women, Work, and Organizing at Duke Medical Center
Journal Article Caring by the Hour: Women, Work, and Organizing at Duke Medical Center. By Karen Brodkin Sacks. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xi + 239 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $11.95.) Get access S. J. Kleinberg S. J. Kleinberg West London Institute of Higher Education Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 326–327, https://doi.org/…
Candidates for Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology State A
Diodorus Siculus and the First Century
Living in Rome during the last years of the Republic, Diodorus of Sicily produced the most expansive history of the ancient world that has survived from antiquity--the Bibliotheke. Whereas Diodorus himself has been commonly seen as a "mere copyist" of earlier historical traditions, Kenneth Sacks explores the complexity of his work to reveal a historian with a distinct point of view indicative of his times. Sacks focuses on three areas of Diodorus…
Toward a unified theory of class, race, and gender
Sisters and wives: The Past and Future of Sexual Equality
Herodotus and the Dating of the Battle of Thermopylae
The battle of Salamis can be dated with a high degree of certainty. Probably about the time of that battle, Cleombrotus was at the Isthmus, constructing the defences there (Hdt. 8. 71. 1). At some point while building the wall, he considered giving chase to the Persian army. When his sacrifice was answered by a solar eclipse, he took this as a bad omen and immediately returned to Lacedaemon (9. 10. 2–3). The eclipse visible to Cleombrotus could o…
Trade, Women, Class, and Society in Ancient Western Asia [and Comments and Reply]
Recent discussion of the effects on society of long-distance exchange has brought the once generally accepted view of early Mesopotamian society as "statist" under heavy fire. There is now broad consensus that by Early Dynastic III there were widespread exchange systems in which the production of commodities played an important role and that by that time individuals were engaging in exchange for personal gain. These important new insights have ha…
State Bias and Women's Status
There is another bias beside male bias present in interpretive works about women. I call it "state bias" to refer to a hierarchical way of conceptualizing characteristic of state societies. As regards women, it assumes that sexual equality can come in only one form: androgyny. But recent ethnographic studies and reexaminations of data suggest that for nonstates, equality may take various forms from both the perspectives of outside observers and m…
The Meaning of Eunapius' History
The fourth century A.D. was an axial period for the Roman World. In the second decade, Constantine established Christianity as the state religion, while still tolerating and even sponsoring pagan cults. By the end of the century, that tolerance had dissolved into persecution. Pagans were confused and anxious. As bearers of classical culture they called themselves Hellenes philosophers and rhetors felt bound to the past and future of the Roman Emp…
Causality and chance on the Upper Nile
Examining Nuer and Dinka history suggests that received wisdom about the organizational and military superiority of the Nuer is misleading at best. Western Dinka were decimated by ivory and slave traders while Nuer took refuge or were pushed into a mosquito-laden swamp. Both groups underwent organizational changes under pressures of capitalist penetration and, in turn, influenced the shapes of trader social organization. The theoretical point of …
Cicero and the Roman Republic
Cicero's antecedents and youth the apprentice years first cases, a crisis and a grand tour quaestor - the first appointment the prosecution of Verres from aedile to praetor the battle for the consulship the consulship the turning-point on the defensive exile and return under the sway of the Triumvirate the governorship of Cilicia the Civil War the philosopher under Caesar's dictatorship the Ides of March the final battle for the republic defeat a…
Caring by the Hour: Women, Work, and Organizing at Duke Medical Center
Journal Article Caring by the Hour: Women, Work, and Organizing at Duke Medical Center. By Karen Brodkin Sacks. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xi + 239 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $11.95.) Get access S. J. Kleinberg S. J. Kleinberg West London Institute of Higher Education Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 326–327, https://doi.org/…
Anthropology, Imperialism and Resistance: The Work of Kathleen Gough
In November 1991 a group of friends and colleagues of Kathleen Gough came together at the meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Chicago at a symposium titled Anthropology, Imperialism and Resistance: The Work of Kathleen Gough. Six months later a similar group convened at the Canadian Anthropology Society annual meetings in Montreal in May of 1992. This special issue is the result of both symposia.(f.2) Although Kathleen Gough w…
Beyond the Double Day: Work and Family in Working-Class Women's Lives
Class Roots of Feminism
During the nineteenth century (say from 1820 to 1920) the women's movement in the United States was not a single movement, but rather three movements which were consciously movements for the rights of women. There was an industrial working-class women's movement for economic improvement and equality which began with the earliest factories in the United States, the New England textile mills of the 1830s. Second, there was a black women's movement …
Euro-Ethnic Working-Class Women's Community Culture
L'A. defini la conception de la culture communautaire chez les femmes de la classe ouvriere en Europe au tournant du 20 e siecle. Il s'interesse a la facon dont les femmes immigrees, notamment juives et italiennes, ont faconne leur propre conception de la feminite, de la reciprocite et des responsabilites « domestiques » a un niveau public (voisinage) a partir de leurs cultures ethniques et en opposition avec les valeurs et les pratiques de la cu…
Caring by the Hour: Women, Work and Organizing at Duke Medical Center
"Women and Class Struggle in Sembene's "God's Bits of Wood
Political Anthropology: National Liberation: Revolution in the Third World. Norman Miller and Roderick AYA
Other: Women and the Public Interest: An Essay on Policy and Protest. Jesse Bernard
Herodotus and the Dating of the Battle of Thermopylae
The battle of Salamis can be dated with a high degree of certainty. Probably about the time of that battle, Cleombrotus was at the Isthmus, constructing the defences there (Hdt. 8. 71. 1). At some point while building the wall, he considered giving chase to the Persian army. When his sacrifice was answered by a solar eclipse, he took this as a bad omen and immediately returned to Lacedaemon (9. 10. 2–3). The eclipse visible to Cleombrotus could o…
Class Roots of Feminism
During the nineteenth century (say from 1820 to 1920) the women's movement in the United States was not a single movement, but rather three movements which were consciously movements for the rights of women. There was an industrial working-class women's movement for economic improvement and equality which began with the earliest factories in the United States, the New England textile mills of the 1830s. Second, there was a black women's movement …
State Bias and Women's Status
There is another bias beside male bias present in interpretive works about women. I call it "state bias" to refer to a hierarchical way of conceptualizing characteristic of state societies. As regards women, it assumes that sexual equality can come in only one form: androgyny. But recent ethnographic studies and reexaminations of data suggest that for nonstates, equality may take various forms from both the perspectives of outside observers and m…
Salt of Earth. Produced by Paul Jarrico , directed by Herbert Biberman , written by Michael Wilson with Rosaura Reuueltas
"Women and Class Struggle in Sembene's "God's Bits of Wood
Causality and chance on the Upper Nile
Examining Nuer and Dinka history suggests that received wisdom about the organizational and military superiority of the Nuer is misleading at best. Western Dinka were decimated by ivory and slave traders while Nuer took refuge or were pushed into a mosquito-laden swamp. Both groups underwent organizational changes under pressures of capitalist penetration and, in turn, influenced the shapes of trader social organization. The theoretical point of …
New Attainments in Feminist Scholarship
Sisters and wives: The Past and Future of Sexual Equality
Appendix Three Engels Revisited: Women, the Organization of Production, and Private Property
The Goba of Zambezi: Sex Roles, Economics, and Change. CHET S. Lancaster
The Attalid Kingdom: A Constitutional History . By R. E. Allen
My Troubles are Going to have Trouble with Me: Everyday Trials and Triumphs of Women Workers
Based on papers from a symposium organized at the 1979 meetings of the American Anthropological Association and from a 1982 conference on Research to Make a Better Living for Working Women
The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. VII, Part I: The Hellenistic World (2nd Edition) . By F. W. Walbank, A. E. Astin, M. W. Frederiksen, and R. M. Ogilvie
Trade, Women, Class, and Society in Ancient Western Asia [and Comments and Reply]
Recent discussion of the effects on society of long-distance exchange has brought the once generally accepted view of early Mesopotamian society as "statist" under heavy fire. There is now broad consensus that by Early Dynastic III there were widespread exchange systems in which the production of commodities played an important role and that by that time individuals were engaging in exchange for personal gain. These important new insights have ha…
The Meaning of Eunapius' History
The fourth century A.D. was an axial period for the Roman World. In the second decade, Constantine established Christianity as the state religion, while still tolerating and even sponsoring pagan cults. By the end of the century, that tolerance had dissolved into persecution. Pagans were confused and anxious. As bearers of classical culture they called themselves Hellenes philosophers and rhetors felt bound to the past and future of the Roman Emp…
Dirty old ladies,’ mothers, and others: Age and gender in cultural and biological perspectives
Brown, Judith K., and Virginia Kerns, eds. In Her Prime: A New View of Middle‐Aged Women. South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin and Garvey, 1985. xii + 217 pp. including individual chapter bibliographies and combined index. $25.95 cloth; $14.95 paper. Davis, Dona Lee. Blood and Nerves: An Ethnographic Focus on Menopause. St. Johns, Newfoundland: Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1983. x + 234 pp. including maps, appendices, and bibliography. $9.…
Combat Sports in the Ancient World: Competition, Violence, and Culture . Michael B. Poliakoff
Patriarchy and Class: African Women in the Home and the Workforce
Caring by the Hour: Women, Work, and Organizing at Duke Medical Center
Caring by the Hour: Women, Work, and Organizing at Duke Medical Center
Journal Article Caring by the Hour: Women, Work, and Organizing at Duke Medical Center. By Karen Brodkin Sacks. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xi + 239 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $11.95.) Get access S. J. Kleinberg S. J. Kleinberg West London Institute of Higher Education Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 326–327, https://doi.org/…
Candidates for Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology State A
Toward a unified theory of class, race, and gender
Feminism and Anthropology
Feminism and anthropology - the story of a relationship gender and status - explaining the position of women understanding women's work - kinship, labour and household I the changing nature of women's lives - kinship, labour and household II women and the state feminist anthropology - what difference does it make
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