This Boston Globe obituary for Jose Arguelles is a straightforward piece of journalism reporting his death in 2011 at age seventy-two, and it is useful for exactly what an obituary is good for: verified biographical facts, birth name and date, career turn from art history to New Age teaching, his authorship of The Mayan Factor, and his role originating the 1987 Harmonic Convergence event. As a newspaper account rather than a scholarly study, it summarizes rather than analyzes his claims about Mayan calendrical prophecy, and its description of the Harmonic Convergence's significance reflects how the event was popularly understood rather than an assessment of the astronomical or Maya-calendrical accuracy of Arguelles's underlying claims, which specialists in Maya epigraphy and archaeoastronomy have separately and substantially disputed.
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Citation
AuthorThe Boston Globe
PublisherThe Boston Globe
Publication Year2011
URLhttp://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2011/04/04/jose_argelles_72_conceived_the_harmonic_convergence/
Source Typenews
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Reliability tier 2: contemporary newspaper journalism, reliable for verified biographical facts but summarizing rather than independently assessing the underlying claims. NotesNewspaper obituary of Jose Arguelles, originator of the Harmonic Convergence, The Boston Globe, 2011; a journalistic account, not a scholarly biography.
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Boston, Cities This source names Boston directly: "This Boston Globe obituary for Jose Arguelles is a straightforward piece of journalism reporting his death in 2011 at age seventy-two, and it is useful for exactly what an obituary is good for..."
Maya, Figures This source names Maya directly: "Age teaching, his authorship of The Mayan Factor, and his role originating the 1987 Harmonic Convergence event."
Claims Backed By This Source (22 claims)
This source backs 22 claims across the atlas. As facts: 18 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Historical Figures, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
- Religious Events, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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