Apotheosis of Captain Cook European Mythmaking in the Pacific

Name: Apotheosis of Captain Cook European Mythmaking in the Pacific
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ISBN: 9780691057521

ISBN-10: 0691057524

ISBN-13: 9780691057521

Edition: 2nd 1992 (Revised)

Authors: Gananath Obeyesekere

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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 ofThe 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.

Book details

List price: $48.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 12/14/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.54" wide x 9.17" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Captain Cook and the European Imagination


Myth Models


Improvisation Rationality and Savage Thought


The Third Coming: A Flashback to the South Seas


The Visit to Tahiti and the Destruction of Eimeo


The Discovery of Hawaii


The Thesis of the Apotheosis


Further Objections to the Apotheosis: Maculate Perceptions and Cultural Conceptions


Anthropology and Pseudo-History


Politics and the Apotheosis: A Hawaiian Perspective


The Other Lono: Omiah, the Dalai Lama of the Hawaiians


Cook, Lono, and the Makahiki Festival


The Narrative Resumed: The Last Days


The Death of Cook: British and Hawaiian Versions


Language Games and the European Apotheosis of James Cook


The Humanist Myth in New Zealand History


The Resurrection and Return of James Cook


The Versions of the Apotheosis in the Traditions of Sea Voyagers


Cook, Fornication, and Evil: The Myth of the Missionaries


On Native Histories: Myth, Debate, and Contentious Discourse


Monterey Melons; or, A Native's Reflection on the Topic of Tropical Tropes


Myth Models in Anthropological Narrative


The Mourning and the Aftermath



The Destruction of Hikiau and the Death of William Watman



Kalii and the Divinity of Kings


Notes


Bibliography


Index