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The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific Paperback - 1997

by Gananath Obeyesekere

Anthropologist 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 the person who, his mission gone awry, becomes a "savage" himself. 14 halftones.


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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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  • Title The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific
  • Author Gananath Obeyesekere
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, USA
  • Date 1997-12-14
  • ISBN 9780691057521 / 0691057524
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.17 x 6.13 x 0.83 in (23.29 x 15.57 x 2.11 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Oceania
  • Library of Congress subjects Cook, James, Ethnology - Polynesia
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98149683
  • Dewey Decimal Code 996.902

About the author

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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