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
Summary
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.
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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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