The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, 1997
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- Title
- The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific
- Author
- Obeyesekere, Gananath
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0691057524
- ISBN 13
- 9780691057521
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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