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Armin Geertz corrects what he sees as basic American and European tendencies to misrepresent non-Western cultures. Carefully documenting the historical role of prophecy in Hopi Indian religion, Geertz shows how prophecies about the end of the world have been created by the Hopi Traditionalist Movement and used by non-Indian movements, cults, and interest groups. Many of the seeming peculiarities of Hopi religion and culture have been invented, he says, by tourists, novelists, journalists, and scholars, and the millennial Traditionalist Movement has subtly co-authored European and American stereotypes of Indians. Geertz's richly detailed examples and persuasive arguments will be welcomed by all those interested in Native American studies, comparative religions, anthropology, and sociology.
Armin Geertz corrects what he sees as basic American and European tendencies to misrepresent non-Western cultures. Carefully documenting the historical role of prophecy in Hopi Indian religion, Geertz shows how prophecies about the end of the world have b
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS 1
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I Prophecy and Discourse
- ONE The Story of the Mysterious Mr. Johnson
- TWO Hopi Prophecy Defined
- THREE The Narrative Context of Hopi Prophecy
- FOUR The Modern Prose Narrative Context of Hopi Prophecy
- PART II Prophecy and Politics
- FIVE Hopi Prophecies in History
- SIX Interpreting Significant Objects
- SEVEN From Resistance to Messianism
- EIGHT On Charisma and the Downfall of a Prophet159
- PART III Prophecy and Meaning
- NINE The Legacy of Prophecy Rock
- TEN Hippie-Sinom (Hippie People) and the Crisis of Meaning
- PART IV Prophecy and Change
- ELEVEN A Model of Narrative Tradition and Change
- Appendices
- APPENDIX A A Bilingual Version of the Emergence Myth with Commentary
- APPENDIX B Selected Versions of the Emergence Myth Narrated by Hostiles and Traditionalists
- APPENDIX C A Catalogue and Typology of Hopi Prophecies, 1858-1961
- APPENDIX D Letter to President Harry Truman from Representatives of the Hopi Indian Empire
- APPENDIX E Hopi Names and Terms with Corrected Orthography
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX