Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific (Revised)

Gananath Obeyesekere

ISBN 10: 0691057524 / ISBN 13: 9780691057521

Verlag: Princeton University Press December 1997, 1997

Minor edgewear with a few pages with tiny tears, else tight and clean. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1021679

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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.

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).

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European ...
Verlag: Princeton University Press December 1997
Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
Einband: Trade Paperback
Zustand: Very Good