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The Apotheosis of Captain Cook

The Apotheosis of Captain Cook

Gananath Obeyesekere

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Princeton University Press
Año de edición:
1997
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Historia de Asia
ISBN:
9780691057521
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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.

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