The Invention of Prophecy: Continuity and Meaning in Hopi Indian Religion - Armin W. Geertz ... Book

	Illustrations
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	Prophecy and Ontology	1
	The Analysis of Hopi Prophecy	4
	A Definition of Religion	9
	The Ethnohermeneutical Approach	10
	On Meaning and Literary Style	13
	Further Goals	14
	A Note on Orthography	16
Pt. I	Prophecy and Discourse
1	The Story of the Mysterious Mr. Johnson	19
	On the Burning of Altars and the Advent of the Apocalypse	19
	The Awat'ovi Conspiracy	30
	The Tiingavi Hypothesis	36
	The Implications of Burning Altars	40
2	Hopi Prophecy Defined	46
	An Indigenous Definition of Hopi Prophecy	46
	The Logic of Prophetic Rhetoric	51
	Prophecy as Social Strategy	58
	From the Cradle to the Grave and Beyond Via the Brain	61
	Cognition and Collective Misrepresentation	66
3	The Narrative Context of Hopi Prophecy	70
	The Core Narrative	70
	The Transformative Mechanisms of Prophetic Media	77
	The Narrative Contexts of Hopi Prophecies	78
	The Prose Narrative Context	79
	Ritual Speech	86
	The Ethnopoetic Narrative Context	88
	Types of Ritual Songs	89
	The Prophetic Content of Ritual Songs	92
4	The Modern Prose Narrative Context of Hopi Prophecy	95
	Literacy Versus Orality: A Critique	95
	Literacy and Acculturation	97
	Literacy and Knowledge	103
	Literacy and Textualization	113
Pt. II	Prophecy and Politics
5	Hopi Prophecies in History	117
	The Prophecies of 1858-1958	119
	Themes of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s	147
	Modern Prophecy and Collective Mental Health	156
6	Interpreting Significant Objects: The Politics of Hopi Apocalypse	166
	Politics and Power in Hopi Iconography	167
	Stone Tablets in Hopi Prophecy and History	169
	Stone Tablets in Bear Clan History	175
	Stone Tablets in Kookop Clan History	192
	The Significance of the Stone Tablets	201
7	From Resistance to Messianism: The Politics of Analysis and the Realities of History	206
	Theories of Factionalism	206
	Gossip and Information Management	210
	The Politics of Analysis	214
	The Traditionalist Movement in Analytical Terms	219
	From Resistance to Universalism	222
	From Universalism to Messianism	230
8	On Charisma and the Downfall of a Prophet	233
	Power Struggles in the Movement	233
	The Flying Saucer Cult	235
	The Question of Charisma	246
Pt. III	Prophecy and Meaning
9	The Legacy of Prophecy Rock: On the Mutability of Petroglyphs	257
	The History of Prophecy Rock	257
	Thomas Banancya, Traditionalist Spokesman	261
	Ecology and Mysticism	266
	Traditionalists Become Traditional	276
	Changing Audiences, Changing Meanings	278
10	Hippie-Sinom Hippie People and the Crisis of Meaning	288
	Mutual Misrepresentation	288
	The Pahaana Syndrome	291
	A Typology of Euro-American Interest Groups	294
	The New Age	307
Pt. IV	Prophecy and Change
11	A Model of Narrative Tradition and Change	323
	Factors of Change	323
	Factors of Continuity	330
	A Model of Continuity and Change in Hopi Prophecy	332
	Conclusion	338
	App. A. A Bilingual Version of the Emergence Myth with Commentary	343
	App. B. Selected Versions of the emergence Myth; Narrated by Hostiles and Traditionalists	368
	App. C. A Catalogue and Typology of Hopi Prophecies, 1858-1961	422
	App. D. Letter to President Harry Truman from Representatives of the Hopi Indian Empire	441
	App. E. Hopi Names and Terms with Corrected Orthography	447
	Bibliography	449
	Index	487