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Deliberate Acts

Changing Hopi Culture Through the Oraibi Split

by Peter M. Whiteley

Drawing on oral accounts from Hopi consultants and contemporary documents, Peter M. Whiteley argues that the Oraibi split of 1906 was the result of a conspiracy among Hopi politico-religious leaders, a revolution to overturn the allegedly corrupt Oraibi religious order. Through an analysis of Bacavi social structure, Whiteley demonstrates how one fragment of a well-established society went about creating a new social order after the old one drastically fragmented.


This project also includes a new essay by Thomas E. Sheridan titled “Deliberate Acts: Peter M. Whiteley’s Hopi Hermeneutics and the 'Collaborative Road.'” Sheridan contextualizes Whiteley’s continued relevance to ethnology and the importance of collaborative work with Indigenous communities.

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    978-0-8165-3787-7
  • publisher
    University of Arizona Press
  • publisher place
    Tucson, AZ
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    CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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    University of Arizona Press
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