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The Apotheosis of Captain Cook
European Mythmaking in the Pacific
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Here Gananath Obeyesekere debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. Using shipboard journals and logs kept by Captain James Cook and his officers, Obeyesekere reveals the captain as both the self-conscious civilizer and as the person who, his mission gone awry, becomes a savage himself. In this new edition of The Apotheosis of Captain Cook , the author addresses, in a lengthy afterword, Marshall Sahlins's 1994 book, How Natives Think , which was a direct response to this work.
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- 1992
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- Title
- The Apotheosis of Captain Cook
- Subtitle
- European Mythmaking in the Pacific
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gananath Obeyesekere
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Released
- 1992
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN10
- 0691036217
- ISBN13
- 9780691036212
- Series
- Tags
- Ethnology
- Rating
- 3 out of 5
- Description
- Here Gananath Obeyesekere debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. Using shipboard journals and logs kept by Captain James Cook and his officers, Obeyesekere reveals the captain as both the self-conscious civilizer and as the person who, his mission gone awry, becomes a savage himself. In this new edition of The Apotheosis of Captain Cook , the author addresses, in a lengthy afterword, Marshall Sahlins's 1994 book, How Natives Think , which was a direct response to this work.