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The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #693013 in Books
- Published on: 1997-11-24
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 313 pages
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Synopsis
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.
