The Apotheosis of Captain Cook - 9780691057521
Un libro in lingua di Gananath Obeyesekere edito da Princeton Univ Pr, 1997
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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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Apotheosis of Captain Cook
- Sottotitolo: European Mythmaking in the Pacific
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Gananath Obeyesekere
- Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
- Collana: Princeton Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 24 Novembre '97
- Genere: SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Ethnology Polynesia
- Pagine: 313
- Dimensioni mm: 241 x 158 x 25
- ISBN-10: 0691057524
- EAN-13: 9780691057521