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

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

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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-cons...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Obeyesekere, Gananath,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1992
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 14 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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