The University of Arizona Press
October 4, 2024
This week author Brian Haley discussed his new book Hopis and the Counterculture with reporter Sam Dingman, host of the radio program “The Show,” which is broadcast by Phoenix-based NPR station KJZZ.
In the new book, Haley, who is a cultural anthropologist, addresses how the Hopi became icons of the followers of alternative spiritualities and reveals one of the major pathways for the appropriation of Indigenous identities that exploded in the 1960s.
In the interview, Haley and Dingman discuss the role Los Angeles radio stations played in amplifying appropriated ideas. Says Haley, “The Radio Free Oz broadcast started doing a number of radio documentaries that gave the Hopi traditionalist faction’s view of things without any real significant critique of what was actually going on there.”
Listen to the full interview.
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About the Author
Brian D. Haley is a professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Oneonta and a leading scholar of the appropriation of Indigenous identities by people with non-Native histories.
