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

Obeyesekere, Gananath

 
9780691057521: The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0691057524 ISBN 13: 9780691057521
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691057524
ISBN 13 
9780691057521
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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