This is a fantastic article exploring the changing scholarship around the history of the Maya, as well as exploring the implications of those changes for the modern Maya. It shows that history is not just simply something that happened, but rather, the study of what defines us and makes us who we are.
Not sure if you've heard of it but the book “lost City of the Monkey God” is a fantastic read and while it’s not about the Maya it is about Central American culture that is gone.
I love all of this stuff cause the people aren’t gone just changed.
I have another book suggestion for people that also describes that same sort of perspective for the Aztecs / Mexica, Camila Townsend’s The Fifth Sun.
It pulls together a ton of more modern research and findings in old archives that gives the Mexica their own voice on what their experience was during the time of the conquest. It’s really good, and I know it’s slightly off topic since the Mexica came so long after the Maya, but their story had also traditionally been one of “and then history (read: the Spanish) happened”, and it really wasn’t that way for them either.
To me, using the phrase "everything we know ___ is wrong" is an insult to the reader or an admission that the author wasn't that knowledgeable about the topic at hand.
Or worse, it's a clickbait title. 15 facts about the Mayans you wouldn't believe! would be a more accurate and fitting title to the content in the article.
I like it. It's a three-way pun, which is rather fun. It ties together the theories of a Mayan societal implosion (like Jared Diamond's Collapse) being refuted here, a wink at the old 2012 Mayan calendar end of the world meme, and the movie Apocalypse Now.
[OP] Quouar | 6 hours ago
This is a fantastic article exploring the changing scholarship around the history of the Maya, as well as exploring the implications of those changes for the modern Maya. It shows that history is not just simply something that happened, but rather, the study of what defines us and makes us who we are.
box_fan_man | 4 hours ago
Not sure if you've heard of it but the book “lost City of the Monkey God” is a fantastic read and while it’s not about the Maya it is about Central American culture that is gone.
I love all of this stuff cause the people aren’t gone just changed.
Monte266 | 4 hours ago
Great book on tape too!
twoinvenice | 4 hours ago
I have another book suggestion for people that also describes that same sort of perspective for the Aztecs / Mexica, Camila Townsend’s The Fifth Sun.
It pulls together a ton of more modern research and findings in old archives that gives the Mexica their own voice on what their experience was during the time of the conquest. It’s really good, and I know it’s slightly off topic since the Mexica came so long after the Maya, but their story had also traditionally been one of “and then history (read: the Spanish) happened”, and it really wasn’t that way for them either.
masala_mayhem | 4 hours ago
What a brilliant article!!!
bleahdeebleah | 5 hours ago
Very cool article
ricksansmorty | an hour ago
To me, using the phrase "everything we know ___ is wrong" is an insult to the reader or an admission that the author wasn't that knowledgeable about the topic at hand.
Or worse, it's a clickbait title. 15 facts about the Mayans you wouldn't believe! would be a more accurate and fitting title to the content in the article.
FilmScoreConnoisseur | 4 hours ago
Weird title.
ElCaz | 3 hours ago
I like it. It's a three-way pun, which is rather fun. It ties together the theories of a Mayan societal implosion (like Jared Diamond's Collapse) being refuted here, a wink at the old 2012 Mayan calendar end of the world meme, and the movie Apocalypse Now.