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

Obeyesekere, Gananath

 
9780691036212: The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0691036217 ISBN 13 : 9780691036212
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1994

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691036217
ISBN 13 
9780691036212
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
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