{"id":1115,"date":"2009-01-24T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2009-01-24T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T00:15:00","slug":"gallimaufry-with-old-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"Gallimaufry with Old Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00b6 Some British Pagans want to rebury a 4,000-year-old skeleton<\/a>. It seems to me that they are just parroting NAGRPA language<\/a> without realizing that (to borrow from another blogger) that the Archbishop of Canterbury has as much “blood” claim to the bones as they do.<\/p>\n

\u00b6 George Plimpton was an American writer of what was once called “new journalism” and is now called creative nonfiction. But this article about him <\/a>in The Nation<\/em> also points out to what extent famous literary journals were subsidized by the CIA as part of the culture war with the Soviet Union. Who says our government does not support the arts?<\/p>\n

\u00b6 Anne Hill defines “California Cosmology” and its evil twin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00b6 Apparently “analog” now means “natural.”<\/a> I missed that.<\/p>\n

So is the \u201cplanetary consciousness\u201d of neotribal gatherings like Boom just window dressing for the same old hedonistic consumption and pursuit of distraction? Perhaps. But as a self-consciously visionary environment, Boom necessarily foreshadowed the apocalypse as much as the eco-dream.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00b6 A wall painting at the Neolithic town of Catal Huyuk <\/a>was often called the world’s oldest map. But what if it is not a map at all?<\/a> Would that mean that map-making was not practiced by “peaceful ancient matriarchies” but was invented by them evil Kurgans?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00b6 Some British Pagans want to rebury a 4,000-year-old skeleton. It seems to me that they are just parroting NAGRPA language without realizing that (to borrow from another blogger) that the Archbishop of Canterbury has as much “blood” claim to the bones as they do. \u00b6 George Plimpton was an American writer of what was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20,75,85,21,22,12],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-archaeology","tag-california","tag-druids","tag-england","tag-weirdness","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-hZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2806,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2806","url_meta":{"origin":1115,"position":0},"title":"Gallimaufry with Bones","author":"Chas S. 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