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

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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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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).
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 336 ● ISBN 9781400843848 ● File size 5.1 MB ● Publisher Princeton University Press ● City Princeton ● Country US ● Published 2021 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7816770 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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