[Aztlan] The 2012 Meme

[Sandy Mielke]

Thanks John, I was in the midst of writing up the announcement of our new
resource from Mark Van Stone, which I will post shortly for everyone to see.


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Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 2:22 AM
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Subject: [Aztlan] The 2012 Meme

Jan Irvin has now made two podcast interivews about the Maya calendar and
2012 available online, one from me and one from John Major Jenkins:
 
Podcast #004 - The 2012 Meme.  An Interview with Prof. John Hoopes
http://gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/entry/2008-11-10T20_44_37-08_00
 
Podcast #008 - The 2012 Meme, Part 2.  An Interview with John Major Jenkins
http://gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/entry/2008-12-08T00_07_50-08_00
 
(In his interview, Jenkins makes mention of the discussions that have
transpired here on AZTLAN.)
 
I hope these will provide additional stimulus for discussion, argumentation,
investigation, and insight.  I anticipate that this issue will bring many
new investigators into Mesoamerican and Pre-Columbian studies.  It will be
the responsibility of all of us to guide them well, teach them how to think
critically, and steer them away from pseudoscience once their sincere
interest has been sparked.
 
The best scholarly background for discussion of 2012 is Mark Van Stone's
excellent resource on the FAMSI website:
 
It's Not the End of the World: What the Ancient Maya Tell Us About 2012
http://www.famsi.org/research/vanstone/2012/index.html
 
John Hoopes
 
P.S.
 
For the record, my last name is mispronounced by the interviewer.  If you
say, "Hoopes took the good looking cookbooks," you'll get the "oo" sound
correct.  It's a counterintuitive but archaic pronunciation, which is partly
why I prefer it.

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