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Student bashing has become all the rage. Allan Bloom has decried today's youth as “spiritually unclad, unconnected, isolated, and no inherited or unconditional connection with anything or anyone,” creating a storm of controversy. E. D. Hirsch has declared students to be culturally illiterate and the National Geographic Society now tells us they are geographically illiterate, as well.Admittedly, statistics can be powerfully persuasive and the results of the recent National Geographic Society report should shake us up. One in seven Americans surveyed could not find the United States on a world map, let alone name the country in which “apartheid” is official government policy. Obviously, something larger than map skills is at stake here. As the survey demonstrated, a huge number of Americans know virtually nothing about world affairs. In a country whose influence is global, millions of people display indifference to, and ignorance of events, beyond our borders.Surveys deocumenting the educational shortcomings of U.S. students indeed have become a dime a dozen. Yet whether or not we agree with these assessments, we have been undeniably offered a grim evaluation of both our students and the job we have done with them. I question, however, whether Bloom's “back to basics” prescription or the acquisition of Hirsch's data base of 5,000 key facts will really make our students smarter, more aware of the complex world they live in. Can “great books” alone (and who will choose them?) or arbitrary concepts devoid of context prepare our students for an interdependent world in which nothing—including the role of the United States— is really certain? Nonetheless, we are compelled to take a good, hard look at ourselves, to reexamine and clarify our role as educators, and to reaffirm education as a potential and potent vehicle for change.

Religion and Political Innovation in Ancient MesoamericaThis chapter was a result of research carried out through a Religion and Innovation in Human Affairs (RIHA) grant from The Historical Society (funded by the John Templeton Foundation). We would especially like to thank the RIHA programme leader and editor of this volume, Donald Yerxa, who offered advice, encouragement and good humour throughout the project. We would also like to thank the people of the lower Río Verde Valley for their friendship and assistance through the years as well as the Consejo de Arqueología and Centro INAH Oaxaca of the Mexican Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Additional funding for our archaeological research discussed in this chapter has been provided by grants from the following organizations: National Science Foundation (grants BNS-8716332, BCS-0096012, BCS-0202624, BCS-1123388, BCS-1123377), Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies (#99012 with Stacie King), National Geographic Society (grant 3767-88), Wenner-Gren Foundation (GR. 4988), University of Colorado at Boulder (CARTSS, CRCW, Norton Anthropology Fund, and Dean’s Fund for Excellence), University of Central Florida Office of Research and Commercialization’s In-House grant and start-up fund, Vanderbilt University Research Council and Mellon Fund, Fulbright Foundation, H. John Heinz III Charitable Trust, Explorers Club, Sigma Xi, Association for Women in Science, Women’s Forum Foundation of Colorado, Colorado Archaeological Society and Rutgers University.

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