The apotheosis of Captain Cook : European mythmaking in the Pacific / Gananath Obeyesekere ; with a new afterword by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Obeyesekere, Gananath, author.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hawaii--History--To 1893.

Hawaii.

Ethnology--Polynesia.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.) : 14 halftones

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey ; Chichester, West Sussex ; Honolulu, Hawai'i : Princeton University Press : Bishop Museum Press, 1997.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691057521

0691057524

OCLC:

1259589869