Mary Elizabeth King

Biographic Data

ID90392
NAMEMary Elizabeth King
GIVEN NAMESMary Elizabeth
FAMILY NAMEKing
SIGNATUREKING M E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pennsylvania
ORCID0000-0002-3967-3523
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS28
AUTHOR COUNT28
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1957
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX2

  • Gandhian Nonviolent Struggle and Untouchability in South India

    Mary Elizabeth KingBOOKGandhian Nonviolent Struggle and…2015

    In the 1920s, in the south Indian village of Vykom, a nonviolent struggle sought to open to everyone the roads surrounding the Brahmin temple there. For centuries, any person or animal could walk those roads but not the so-called untouchable Hindus, whose use of the roads would “pollute” the high castes. From April 1924 to November 1925, Mohandas K. Gandhi waged a satyagraha to gain access for excluded groups to these routes encircling the temple…

  • The Ezhava Community Awakens

    Mary Elizabeth KingCHAPTERGandhian Nonviolent Struggle and…2015

    An 1896 petition to the maharaja was signed by 13,176 Ezhavas, condemning their exclusion from government jobs. Efforts to overcome disabilities acquired at birth from the caste system were being promoted through socio-religious reform and nonviolent methods, such as petitioning. The Ezhavas emerged as the most educated and organized untouchable community in Travancore (and also of India), partly due to the government’s absorption of costs of pri…

  • Gandhian Nonviolent Struggle and Untouchability in South India

    Mary Elizabeth KingBOOKGandhian Nonviolent Struggle and…2014

    Through an analysis of the twenty-month long Gandhian Satyagraha (non-violent resistance) against untouchability at Vykom, Kerala, in the mid-1920s, this book explores new approaches to the understanding and practice of non-violence as a means of civil protest. Contesting the notion that the movement was directed at the 'conversion' of upper castes to accommodate the lower sections of the society, the author argues that it was modern India's firs…

  • Recovering Nonviolent History

    Amr Abdalla, Yasmine Arafa et al.BOOKRecovering Nonviolent History2013

  • AprilCarter. People Power and Political Change

    Open AccessMary Elizabeth KingARTICLEPeace & Change2013

  • Social Mobility and Reproduction Among Nineteenth-Century Colorado Silver Prospectors

    Open AccessSusan M Glover, Mary Elizabeth KingARTICLEJournal of Family History2011References: 17

    Popular cultural convention holds that, for those with enough gumption, the American frontier was a land of unparalleled opportunity.1 However, careful research throws doubt on the universality of this convention.2 Thus, the authors explore factors that increase or decrease opportunities for upward mobility in frontier towns.3 The authors’ longitudinal study of late nineteenth century silver prospectors in Gothic, Colorado, demonstrates that whil…

  • A Quiet Revolution

    Open AccessMary Elizabeth King, Jimmy CarterBOOKA quiet revolution2007

    In A Quiet Revolution, renowned civil rights activist Mary Elizabeth King questions the prevailing wisdom that the first Palestinian Intifada was defined by violence. She argues that initially, the uprising was characterized by a massive nonviolent social mobilization, rooted in popular committees often steered by women. These committees adopted strategies that began to lead to political results -- among them the beginnings of a negotiated settle…

  • Radio Free Dixie

    Mary Elizabeth King, Timothy B TysonARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams & the Roots of Black Power. By Timothy B. Tyson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. viii, 402 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2502-6.) Get access Mary E. King Mary E. King St. George's University, Grenada, West Indies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, December 2000, Pages 1127–1128, https://doi.…

  • Students and Civil Rights in the 1960s

    Jack Weinberg, Doug Mcadam et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1990

    The black civil rights movement of the early 1960s was a mass movement that used activist tactics, was committed to a philosophy of nonviolence, and sought racial integration and equality as its goal. By the middle of the decade, this movement had achieved a considerable measure of success. Race segregation in America, while not yet abolished, had been stripped of the institutional legitimacy it had previously enjoyed. In the process, America's c…

  • News and Short Contributions

    L G Straus, A John Gwinnett et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1983

  • News and Short Contributions

    Benjamin K W Booth, Alison Watson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1983

  • Anthropology in Museums - A Bibliography

    Open AccessMary Elizabeth KingARTICLECouncil for Museum Anthropology…1983References: 22

  • Irene Emery, 1900-1981

    Open AccessMary Elizabeth KingARTICLEAmerican Antiquity1983References: 2

    Studies at the Textile Museum, died suddenly on May 21, 1981, of a cerebral hemorrhage. She was 81 and had been in ill health for many years, but she had continued to serve as teacher, mentor, editor, colleague, and friend to many of those interested or involved in textile studies. Indeed, the revised edition of her pioneering work, The Primary Structures of Fabrics: An IJJustrated CJassi/ication, had just been published. Death came when she suff…

  • News and Short Contributions

    Mary Elizabeth King, Helen Schenck et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1982

  • News and Short Contributions

    Philip M Hobler, Christopher C Nagle et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1982

    Philip M. Hobler, Christopher Nagle, U. Vincent Wilcox, Tom D. Dillehay, Mario Pino Q., E. Mott Davis, S. Valastro, Jr., Alejandra G. Varela, Rodolfo Casamiquela, Mary Elizabeth King, News and Short Contributions, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Winter, 1982), pp. 536-553

  • The Ethics of Ethnographic Collecting

    Open AccessMary Elizabeth KingARTICLECouncil for Museum Anthropology…1982References: 2

  • Museum Anthropology

    Open AccessMary Elizabeth KingARTICLECouncil for Museum Anthropology…1980

  • Splendid Symbols

    Mary Elizabeth KingARTICLEAfrican Arts1979Cited by: 18

  • Museum Anthropology

    Open AccessMary Elizabeth KingARTICLECouncil for Museum Anthropology…1979Cited by: 2

  • Report of the Committee on the Training of Curators of Anthropology

    Open AccessMary Elizabeth KingARTICLECouncil for Museum Anthropology…1979

  • Museums and the American Indian

    Open AccessMary Elizabeth KingARTICLECouncil for Museum Anthropology…1978Cited by: 1

  • Report to the National Museums Act

    Open AccessMary Elizabeth KingARTICLEMuseum Anthropology1978

  • Analytical Methods and Prehistoric Textiles

    Open AccessMary Elizabeth KingARTICLEAmerican Antiquity1978Cited by: 5References: 8

    The special problems of textile analysis in archaeology are reviewed. The present state of the art concerning identification of fibers, analysis of structure and technique, dyes, and analytical techniques is outlined. Suggestions are made for securing comparative collections and for recording archaeological specimens

  • Curator training report

    Open AccessMary Elizabeth KingARTICLECouncil for Museum Anthropology…1977

  • Art and Environment in Native America

    Carroll L Riley, Mary Elizabeth King et al.ARTICLEMan1975Cited by: 1