L Ralph
Biographic Data
| ID | 14436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Ralph |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Ralph |
| SIGNATURE | RALPH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-9427-4768 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1936 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
To the Readers of Current Anthropology
Literary anthropology
This essay reflects on the recent return to the literary within anthropological thinking and writing and places it in conversation with wider dynamics. To do so, we outline the general conditions of this movement, describe the features that constitute a spectrum of literary anthropological works, argue that these features may enable distinctive modes of anthropological engagement with affective economies, political rationalities, and the crisis o…
A fair shake
This article is an intimate encounter with grief that aims to transform my own field of scholarly study into painful lived experience. The central question of my essay is: When a life is extinguished by street violence, how does a victim's family heal from homicide? The major argument of this article centers around accountability. Drawing from the literature in child psychology as well as the sociology and anthropology of urban violence, I argue …
The Anthropology of Biocultural Environments
To the Readers of Current Anthropology
To the Readers of Current Anthropology
Anthropology and Inheritance
Previous articleNext article FreeAnthropology and Inheritance An Introduction to Supplement 25Laurence RalphLaurence Ralph Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreI am excited to share with our readers a themed issue, Anthropology and Inheritance, which brings together significant theoretical conc…
To the Readers of Current Anthropology
Current Anthropology Visual Anthropology Competition
Torture without Torturers
What happens when trauma becomes a political frame for recognizing anti-black racism and police violence? I grapple with this question by illustrating the ways that survivors of police torture must present themselves as a part of a disability category. More broadly, this article demonstrates that, as opposed to being a category of difference unto itself, the idea of police torture in Chicago has been transformed through legal precedent, activism,…
Pedagogy of the flesh
The qualia of pain
This article considers the relationship between the qualitative experience or the 'qualia of pain', enactments of violence, and the aggressive silences that obscure its recognition. I argue that by coming to terms with the qualia of pain, black urbanites transform experiences of injury into communal narratives. Nancy Munn's ethnography, The Fame of Gawa, helps frame my analysis. On the island of Gawa, the circulation of objects and names creates …
“As Soon as I Get Out Ima Cop Dem Jordans”
Sudhir Venkatesh and Steven Levitt's influential 2000 article transformed the way social scientists study gangs by showing the context in which Chicago gang members built an organization modeled on a corporation. But if this research helped to demonstrate that the underground economy is a logical response to the inner city's isolation from the rest of the country, it also makes it difficult to see that the very same factors that have led to urban…
Marriages of two clergy-persons
Historical News and Comments
Journal Article Historical News and Comments Get access Journal of American History, Volume 23, Issue 3, December 1936, Pages 462–475, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/23.3.462 Published: 01 December 1936
The qualia of pain
This article considers the relationship between the qualitative experience or the 'qualia of pain', enactments of violence, and the aggressive silences that obscure its recognition. I argue that by coming to terms with the qualia of pain, black urbanites transform experiences of injury into communal narratives. Nancy Munn's ethnography, The Fame of Gawa, helps frame my analysis. On the island of Gawa, the circulation of objects and names creates …
Torture without Torturers
What happens when trauma becomes a political frame for recognizing anti-black racism and police violence? I grapple with this question by illustrating the ways that survivors of police torture must present themselves as a part of a disability category. More broadly, this article demonstrates that, as opposed to being a category of difference unto itself, the idea of police torture in Chicago has been transformed through legal precedent, activism,…
Literary anthropology
This essay reflects on the recent return to the literary within anthropological thinking and writing and places it in conversation with wider dynamics. To do so, we outline the general conditions of this movement, describe the features that constitute a spectrum of literary anthropological works, argue that these features may enable distinctive modes of anthropological engagement with affective economies, political rationalities, and the crisis o…
Historical News and Comments
Journal Article Historical News and Comments Get access Journal of American History, Volume 23, Issue 3, December 1936, Pages 462–475, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/23.3.462 Published: 01 December 1936
Marriages of two clergy-persons
“As Soon as I Get Out Ima Cop Dem Jordans”
Sudhir Venkatesh and Steven Levitt's influential 2000 article transformed the way social scientists study gangs by showing the context in which Chicago gang members built an organization modeled on a corporation. But if this research helped to demonstrate that the underground economy is a logical response to the inner city's isolation from the rest of the country, it also makes it difficult to see that the very same factors that have led to urban…
The qualia of pain
This article considers the relationship between the qualitative experience or the 'qualia of pain', enactments of violence, and the aggressive silences that obscure its recognition. I argue that by coming to terms with the qualia of pain, black urbanites transform experiences of injury into communal narratives. Nancy Munn's ethnography, The Fame of Gawa, helps frame my analysis. On the island of Gawa, the circulation of objects and names creates …
Pedagogy of the flesh
Torture without Torturers
What happens when trauma becomes a political frame for recognizing anti-black racism and police violence? I grapple with this question by illustrating the ways that survivors of police torture must present themselves as a part of a disability category. More broadly, this article demonstrates that, as opposed to being a category of difference unto itself, the idea of police torture in Chicago has been transformed through legal precedent, activism,…
To the Readers of Current Anthropology
Current Anthropology Visual Anthropology Competition
To the Readers of Current Anthropology
Anthropology and Inheritance
Previous articleNext article FreeAnthropology and Inheritance An Introduction to Supplement 25Laurence RalphLaurence Ralph Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreI am excited to share with our readers a themed issue, Anthropology and Inheritance, which brings together significant theoretical conc…
To the Readers of Current Anthropology
The Anthropology of Biocultural Environments
To the Readers of Current Anthropology
Literary anthropology
This essay reflects on the recent return to the literary within anthropological thinking and writing and places it in conversation with wider dynamics. To do so, we outline the general conditions of this movement, describe the features that constitute a spectrum of literary anthropological works, argue that these features may enable distinctive modes of anthropological engagement with affective economies, political rationalities, and the crisis o…
A fair shake
This article is an intimate encounter with grief that aims to transform my own field of scholarly study into painful lived experience. The central question of my essay is: When a life is extinguished by street violence, how does a victim's family heal from homicide? The major argument of this article centers around accountability. Drawing from the literature in child psychology as well as the sociology and anthropology of urban violence, I argue …
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