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The Invention of Prophecy: Continuity and Meaning in Hopi Indian Religion

By Armin W. Geertz

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1994
ISBN
0520081811, 9780520081819, 8798344110, 9788798344117
ASIN
B001QFDSI4
LCC
E99.H7 G446 1994
Open Library ID
OL1428725M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
6 MB (5862414 bytes)
Pages
530\505
Topic
Religion
Time added
2014-10-05 02:30:00

Description

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.

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