The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific Paperback - 1997
by Gananath Obeyesekere
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Anthropologist 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 the person who, his mission gone awry, becomes a "savage" himself. 14 halftones.
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- Title The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific
- Author Gananath Obeyesekere
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Usa
- Date 1997-11
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # 10929
- ISBN 9780691057521 / 0691057524
- Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 9.17 x 6.13 x 0.83 in (23.29 x 15.57 x 2.11 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Oceania
- Library of Congress subjects Cook, James, Ethnology - Polynesia
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98149683
- Dewey Decimal Code 996.902
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