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The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific

By Gananath Obeyesekere

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781400843848
DOI
10.1515/9781400843848
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
26 MB (26976142 bytes)
Pages
336\336
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-24 15:44:39

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.

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