{"id":5398,"date":"2013-04-04T10:39:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T16:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5398"},"modified":"2013-04-04T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T16:41:08","slug":"some-items-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5398","title":{"rendered":"Some Items of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some Pagan, occult, and academic news items of interest:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 I did not know that any of the “Group of Seven<\/a>” were Theosophists \u2014 plus other influential Canadian Pagans and occultists in one list.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 “Unintended Consequences of the Affordable Health Care Act” for part-time college and university faculty. In other words, schools are reacting to Obamacare by cutting the hours of adjunct professors.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 I have been saying for ten years (!) that we need more Pagan biography and autobiography<\/a>. So I was glad to read in The Wild Hunt<\/em> that Deborah Lipp has written one. <\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Hopi tribal government is upset over an upcoming French auction selling some of their sacred masks<\/a>. NAGPRA is no help internationally.<\/p>\n

Historians say many Hopi artifacts were taken long ago by people who found them unattended in shrines and on altars along the mesas of the Southwest<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because if a shrine does not have a full-time caretaker, it must be “abandoned.” The “vanishing Indian” and all that.<\/p>\n

This is interesting too; the American government will help foreign countries recover their artifacts here, but does not protect ours over there:<\/p>\n

When a nation like Italy or Cambodia claims ownership of an object in the United States, it typically invokes international accords that require American officials to take up the cases. The Justice Department, for example, recently sent two lawyers to Cambodia as part of an effort to help that country seize an ancient statue that Sotheby\u2019s planned to auction in New York.<\/p>\n

The United States does not have similar accords that it could cite in support of the Hopi claim on the Paris auction items. Several experts and activists said the United States had never viewed its own cultural patrimony as a priority because the country is relatively young, has long embraced the concept of free trade and has not historically focused on the cultural heritage issues of American Indians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some Pagan, occult, and academic news items of interest: \u2022 I did not know that any of the “Group of Seven” were Theosophists \u2014 plus other influential Canadian Pagans and occultists in one list. \u2022 “Unintended Consequences of the Affordable Health Care Act” for part-time college and university faculty. 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