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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Obeyesekere, Gananath,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 14 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; PREFACE (1997) --; PREFACE --; I --; II --; III --; IV --; V --; VI --; VII --; VIII --; AFTERWORD: ON DE-SAHLINIZATION --; APPENDIX I. The Destruction ofHikiau and the Death of William Watman --; APPENDIX II. Kalii and the Divinity of Kings --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400843848; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400843848?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Gananath Obeyesekere.

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.