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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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The Apotheosis of Captain Cook, Gananath Obeyesekere

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1992
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Titul
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook
Podtitul
European Mythmaking in the Pacific
Jazyk
anglicky
Rok vydania
1992
Väzba
mäkká
Počet strán
272
ISBN10
0691036217
ISBN13
9780691036212
Série
Hodnotenie
3 z 5
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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.