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Adelbert von Chamisso
Adoration
Afterword
Anthropologist
Antiquities
Apotheosis
Archive
Aumakua
Author_Gananath Obeyesekere
Buddhism
Cannibalism
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Christianity
Credulity
Criticism
David Malo
Death of Cook
Deity
Desecration
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Ethnography
Firewood
Gananath Obeyesekere
Greg Dening
Hakluyt Society
Hawaii (island)
Heiau
Human sacrifice
Ideal type
Idolatry
Informant
John Webber
Jouissance
Kamehameha I
Kealakekua Bay
Kurtz (Heart of Darkness)
Lono
Luakini
Makahiki
Marshall Sahlins
Missionary
Missionary (LDS Church)
Mourning
Musket
Narrative
Oahu
Ordinary seaman
Otto von Kotzebue
Pinnace (ship's boat)
Pollution
Polynesia
Polynesian culture
Postmodernism
Princeton University Press
Prostitution
Rationality
Religion
Resentment
Rite
Sacred king
Sacrilege
Sinecure
South Seas (genre)
Spaniards
Sri Lanka
Superiority (short story)
Sweet potato
Tahiti
Tahitians
Theft
University of Chicago Press
Warfare
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691057521
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 14 Dec 1997
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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-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.
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).
