The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific by Obeyesekere, Gananath

The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780691057521)

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The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific by Obeyesekere, Gananath

The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific

$48.00
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific by Obeyesekere, Gananath

The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific

$48.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Gananath Obeyesekere
ISBN-10: 0691057524
ISBN-13: 9780691057521
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/14/1997
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.17h x 6.13w x 0.83d
By Gananath Obeyesekere
By Gananath Obeyesekere
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Gananath Obeyesekere is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. His many books include The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology and, with Richard Gombrich, Buddhism Transformed: Religious Change in Sri Lanka (Princeton).

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