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The apotheosis of Captain Cook: European mythmaking in the Pacific: with a new afterword by the author by Gananath Obeyesekere; with a new afterword by the author is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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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- Author
- Gananath Obeyesekere; with a new afterword by the author
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press ; Bishop Museum Press
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691036212
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Australian & Oceanian History, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.69 / 5 (54 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- The apotheosis of Captain Cook: European mythmaking in the Pacific: with a new afterword by the author (1994)
- The apotheosis of Captain Cook: European mythmaking in the Pacific: with a new afterword by the author (1997)
- The Artistry of Aeschylus and Zeami: A Comparative Study of Greek Tragedy and No (Princeton Legacy Library, 972) (2014)
- The Apotheosis of Captain Cook : European Mythmaking in the Pacific (2021)
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