...Toby Beauchamp Abstract This article shows how the US national park ranger comes to function simultaneously as friendly, educational caretaker and as policing authority forged through and upholding state violence. It argues that long-standing government and popular discourse distinguishing rangers...

... identity, both in the minds of American citi- zens and in the interpretive schemes of park planners. After the National Park Service (NPS) assumed responsibility for Alcatraz’s management in 1972, loosely-framed NPS guidelines in the 1970s and early 1980s allowed park rangers to develop a variety...

... of cultural artifacts and practices and required the exploration of the meanings groups within cultures assigned to them. Essays in the Hobsbawm and Ranger collection were very useful in initiating discussion about the multiple ways of defining who belongs to a culture, both from the point...

... of attacks against Anglo farms and businesses. The motto on the seditionists’ flag read “igualdad e indepen- dencia” (equality and independence), and their army was called the Liberating Army for Races and Peoples.36 The novel begins with four Texas Rangers patrolling...

... to its credit, ones by no means inferior to those of Europe. Thus, if Europeans had established organized polities, monarchs, and cities, nationalist historiography felt challenged to prove that Africans, too, had produced the same. As Terence Ranger noted, “There was a demand for some— almost...

... park ranger over the course of the twentieth century as conservationists debated what kind of social role the ranger must play, with the effect that the effort to distinguish “rangers from ‘real’ police naturalizes and actively supports the ranger’s authoritative role in hierarchies of power...

... uncritically celebrated. Beginning with the park’s introductory slide show and continuing through exhibits and ranger-led tours, the park’s foundational narra- tive of the mill girls is told as a tale of gradual disenchantment, labor activism, and eventual replacement of the early native-born workforce...

... was by the sociologist Edward Shils, and the other, which brought the idea of “invented tradition” into the academic limelight, had been edited by the historians Eric Hobsbawm and Terrence Ranger.2 Neither book acknowledged folklorists’ extensive work on, or perhaps more...

... for other means. Others look interested and listen. This active reclaiming of the space and its longer history sometimes rubs other tourists or National Park Service Rangers the wrong way. Over the course of 182  Radical History Review bringing multiple groups to the USS Arizona Memorial...

... masochistic action fig- ure outside a church, we are even more intrigued to think of what the resourceful Pagani will do next on the colonial front. Will he produce a line of Green Mountain Boys? A series of Robert Rogers Power Rangers? A set of Whiskey Rebels? Or how about a Lord Cornbury Dress...

..., choosing instead to execute them as a course of military neces - sity. When unidentified Indians attacked and killed a family of settlers the local newspapers denounced the deed as murder, even while rangers attacked Indian camps in Nisqually territory, in one case killing perhaps 35 men, women...

...-­proclaimed “Lone Ranger.” Forcefully grabbing Crockett’s hand the man loudly proclaims: “I’m all alone in this world and I don’t answer to no one but myself; I don’t let no one down. . . . I’m the Lone Ranger,” and then as quickly as he arrived turned and walked off laughing contentedly to himself...

... colonial: un mito de la Independencia (Santiago: Universidad de Chile, 1%8). 34. Eric Hobsbawm, "Introduction: Inventing Traditions," in Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds., The hivention of Tradition (New York Cambridge University Press, 1983),13. 35. "Viva la Patria Seiiores," Archivo del...

... colonial: un mito de la Independencia (Santiago: Universidad de Chile, 1%8). 34. Eric Hobsbawm, "Introduction: Inventing Traditions," in Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds., The hivention of Tradition (New York Cambridge University Press, 1983),13. 35. "Viva la Patria Seiiores," Archivo del...

.... Wallerstein, "Africa, One Hundred Years after the Berlin Conference," ARPP Working Papas, No. 9, 1984, p. 7. 11. J.F. Ade Ajayi, "The Continuity ofAfrican Institutions Under Colonialism," in T.O. Ranger, ed., Enurging 77tms ofAfrican Hirtory (Nairobi, 1968), 189-200. 12. Wallerstein...

... people in an anti-modern, arcadian paradigm (see Figure 3). Consequently, This monument was erected in Sydney’s Camperdown Cemetery during 1944 by the Rangers’ League of New South Wales to “Mogo, Perry, Tommy and Wanda1ina”-four Aboriginal people buried in the cemetery-and “the whole...

... past posed by the ravages of countless pot hunters and grave robbers tunneling through the his- toric and prehistoric sites of the Southwest. In 1985 alone more than 900 cases of archaeological vandalism were reported. Currently ar- chaeologists and rangers with the Bureau of Land Management...

... of the open hatred expressed by Spain’s two largest teams. In Scottish football, perhaps the clash between Celtic and Rangers offers something of the ideological stakes, if one takes the contest between Irish republicanism and Protestant supremacism as a rough equivalent of the right/left and center...

..., Histories: Essays in Culture, History Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance and Political Economy (1989); Eric in Colonial Peru (1986); Felipe Hobsbawm and Terence 0. Ranger, Guaman Poma de Ayala, Letter to a eds., The Invention of Tradition (1983) King: A Peruvian Chief's Account of Life Under...

... contracts for the outsourcing of the Iraq war began inventing or inflating their military experience with citations for National Medals of Honor and distinguished service crosses and claims of service as SEALS, Marine Recon Rangers, and Delta Force soldiers.14 Americans hold a special place...