ABSTRACT
Hopi culture features prophecy as an important part of the ideology of tradition, and tradition as an important part of modern Hopi life. Tradition constitutes part of the "second" modernity: the modernity of challenge, criticism, dissent, exceptionalism. Traditionalism and progressivism among the Hopi have resulted from Hopis' differential interpretations of their history and culture, and they represent two broad metaphors, rather than actual behavior patterns. The concepts of a political economic "world system" and modernization provide the motivation for this study. World systems theory begins from the premise that identifiable social, political, and economic systems extend beyond individual nations, communities, and populations. Central to world systems theory are the concepts of core/periphery and metropolis/satellite. Modernity and modernization constitute a set of agendas, states of being, moral orders, ideologies, and assumptions, as well as styles, methods, and techniques. Progressive modernists counterposed themselves to conservatives, reactionaries, and traditionalists largely by embracing factual and technical solutions to all problems.
