9780691057521-0691057524-The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific

The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific

ISBN-13: 9780691057521
ISBN-10: 0691057524
Edition: Reprint
Author: Gananath Obeyesekere
Publication date: 1997
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback 313 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780691057521
ISBN-10: 0691057524
Edition: Reprint
Author: Gananath Obeyesekere
Publication date: 1997
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback 313 pages

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The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific (ISBN-13: 9780691057521 and ISBN-10: 0691057524), written by authors Gananath Obeyesekere, was published by Princeton University Press in 1997. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Cultural & Regional (United States, Historical, Asia, Culinary Biographies, Cooking Education & Reference, Geography, Earth Sciences, Folklore & Mythology, Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Cultural & Regional books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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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