The apotheosis of Captain Cook : European mythmaking in the Pacific
(2021)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Princeton University Press, 2021
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781400843848 MWT15909207, 1400843847 15909207
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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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