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SNL's take on the Maya calendar and 2012. No wonder everyone's so confused!
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John Hoopes
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Apocalypse
I started this thread back in 2006, anticipating then that 2012 would become a big deal. Now the year has actually arrived, so it may be worthwhile to have a look back at how press on the issue has evolved (or not). Below is a list of the online articles for which I've been interviewed on the 2012 mania. I can't guarantee that all of the links are still active, but it still makes for a
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John Hoopes
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Apocalypse
We've seen this coming for a while. It's fun to look back on the posts from 2006 when this topic was relatively new. Something tells me 2012 will be a bumper year for pseudoarchaeology. Something also tells me that the 2012 hype will not end after December 21, 2012...
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John Hoopes
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Apocalypse
Thanks for posting these, Hermione. I hadn't been to the Hall of Ma'at in a while, so it's nice to see things are keeping busy over here. If anyone's got any questions about my work on 2012, please don't hesitate to ask. (I tried to be relatively comprehensive in the recently posted article for the Psychology Today blog.)
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John Hoopes
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Apocalypse
Here are two articles from the Hallof Ma'at archives about a book mentioned in the blog cited above. The first was written back in 2006, the second in 2008. Will 2012 unfold as predicted?
Review of "2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl"
Review of "2012: The Year of the Mayan Prophecy" (same book, different title)
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John Hoopes
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Apocalypse
What You Should Know About 2012: Answers to 13 Questions
(Oops. I posted to this forum when it should have gone into the "2012" forum. Sorry!)
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John Hoopes
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Apocalypse
Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> Please tell me they're not claiming 'Utopia' is
> historical in any way, shape or form!
Not they, but it seems likely that Thomas More's "Utopia" may well have been inspired by accounts coming back from early explorers to the New World. Just what he'd heard makes for int
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John Hoopes
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Humanities
I've made some substantial additions to the Wikipedia entry on "Mayanism" in the interest of public education. Please feel free to modify and/or augment what I hope will become a useful reference on this quirky topic.
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John Hoopes
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Humanities
Thanks for the tips and good advice. I haven't participated in any video programs yet, but I've been interviewed for some newspaper stories:
The Final Days, by Benjamin Anastas (New York Times)
Five Years: 2012 and the End of the World As We Know It, by Tom King (Lawrence.com)
(This last one includes a long podcast.)
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John Hoopes
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Apocalypse
I just received the message that follows with the request:
"Please feel free to pass this letter on to anyone you see fit."
I've indicated that I'm willing to chat with her, but I'm curious to hear from others who have experience with this kind of programming. Is it better to engage or abstain?
"'Truth Be Known' introduces ordinary people struggli
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John Hoopes
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Apocalypse
Which "these" do you mean? New Age & counterculture? Counterculture & skepticism?
I put "skeptical" in quotes because I was referring to the New Age tendency to be selectively skeptical. For example, being skeptical of mainstream archaeology but not of psi phenomena.
I don't equate New Age with counterculture at all. There is some overlap, but also some
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John Hoopes
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Humanities
Well done, Doug! It's great that you included links to both the Hall of Ma'at and your own website. It's my own experience that fringe archaeology can be a "gateway drug" to the harder stuff, but people need to know where to find quality sources.
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John Hoopes
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Humanities
Daniel Pinchbeck is seeking contributions representing a perspective of "healthy skepticism" for the online magazine Reality Sandwich:
Some examples of currently featured articles:
Maya Shamanism and 2012: A Psychedelic Cosmology, by John Major Jenkins
Seriously Odd Archeological Mysteries, by Preston Peet
It's a heavily New Age and counterculture venue. Articl
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John Hoopes
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Humanities
Classic or no, these ideas continue to fuel films, TV, video games, and other elements of American pop culture.
Whitley Streiber's new novel "2012: The War for Souls" is the basis for a major motion picture of the same title by the same director and screenwriters who brought who created the mega-blockbuster movie "Transformers".
One of the formative influenc
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John Hoopes
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Humanities
I was recently sent a copy of Barbara Hand Clow's new book "The Mayan Code: Time Acceleration and Awakening the World Mind" by Cyntha Fowles, the publicist for Inner Tradiitions/Bear & Company. While it's in the more-of-the-same category when it comes to New Age speculation, I've found that its autobiographical content is particularly revealing with respect to the re
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Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> Yeah but Christian apocalyptics don't get the same
> kind of press as far as I see. New Age is much
> more respectable.
More respectable? I beg to differ. One can still fervently believe in a Christian Armageddon and remain a viable candidate for President of the U.S. It would probably oive one
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John Hoopes
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I don't know how you're measuring this. There are *millions* of people who find the Christian end-of-days scenarios to be credible. My guess is that the ancient Maya afisionados still number only in the tens of thousands (if that).
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"John Hoopes, an archaeologist at the University of Kansas, is more complimentary of Jenkins’s research, even if he doubts the validity of his major conclusions, including the galactic-alignment theory. 'John Jenkins has done his homework on the ancient Maya,' he told me, 'and he’s thought about their culture a great deal. Arguelles and Calleman largely disregard what we know
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John Hoopes
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Humanities
There's an article on ancient Maya "prophecy" and the 2012 hype by Benjamin Anastas in today's New York Times Magazine:
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John Hoopes
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archaeo Wrote:
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> Don't you mean, "to reinforce popular, racist and
> sensationalist misconceptions...."
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Well, yes, of course I do. You're also right that reinforcement of these misconceptions usually leads to dialogue and greater understanding. It's a bit like the pain and risk of childbirth, a necessary discomfort that results in a new life. T
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John Hoopes
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Ancient History
Another chance for Mel Gibson to screw up popular conceptions of the ancient past opens nationwide on Friday.
The official website
"Apocalypto Now" from TIME (in March)
"Apocalypto, now for Mel, Maya and historians" from USA Today (in July)
"Bigotry and the Box Office" from the Kansas City Star (a few days ago)
Some early reviews:
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John Hoopes
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Ancient History
One of the best sources on the complexity of gender in Native American culture is:
"The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture", by Walter I. Williams
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John Hoopes
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Humanities
Katherine Reece Wrote:
> You know oddly enough I hadn't heard of
> these two guys!
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I haven't seen much from Ivar Zapp in a long time, but one of his other projects was marketing neckties made from highly polished pieces of tropical hardwood. They were unusual and attractive, but I don't think they caught on.
George Erikson specializes in "alternative"
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John Hoopes
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Ancient History
I think you're onto something here. Our current culture of careful precise measurement, like medical insurance, is to a large extent the result of a highly litigious environment. I'm sure many experienced carpenters and builders could erect "precise" structures without using exact tools, but don't because they know they'll get sued if something goes wrong.
There
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John Hoopes
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Ancient History
I'm confused. The NYT article by John Noble Wilford, who's one of the most experienced and savvy science writers in the U.S., says the research was done by Michel W. Barsoum, a professor of materials engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Was there another study done by a French team, or is Michel Barsoum "the French" to whom Lehner refers?
I assume The Jou
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John Hoopes
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Ancient History
Katherine Reece Wrote:
> That was not the impression that I got
Okay, that's good. I'm probably being far too harsh. I only saw this documentary once, when it first screened (in 2002 or 2003). Knowing how much information I gave them and how much time Ifigenia spent with the crew, I found their attention to her to be underwhelming. I can't recall whether another Costa
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John Hoopes
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Ancient History
Excellent? I beg to differ. While the debunking is in the right spirit, I can't forgive the producers for disrespecting hardworking Costa Rican archaeologists who have been conducting research in this region for many, many years.
Ifigenia Quintanilla, a Costa Rican archaeologist at the University of Barcelona who is about to complete a thesis on the culture that made the stone balls, is
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John Hoopes
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Ancient History
I think defining people on the basis of their bodies is always going to be problematic. Considering the similarities in discourse about race and gender.
Tedlock asserts that women's bodies make them better shamans. I cringe to think that similar argument could be made for physicality in terms of race or even ethnicity.
Do "people of color" make better shamans than white Eur
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John Hoopes
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Humanities
C'est magnifique! Here are some of the big balls that were NOT made by Mother Nature.
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John Hoopes
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Ancient History
Well, it's not just sexuality.
It's also about the reproductive function and the role of "motherhood"...
So much for progressive feminism!
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John Hoopes
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Humanities
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