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The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific
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- Book Title
- The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacif
- ISBN
- 9780691057521
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Apotheosis of Captain Cook : European Mythmaking in the Pacific
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Subject
- Asia / General, Adventurers & Explorers, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Oceania
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Features
- Revised
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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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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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691057524
ISBN-13
9780691057521
eBay Product ID (ePID)
819895
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Apotheosis of Captain Cook : European Mythmaking in the Pacific
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Revised
Subject
Asia / General, Adventurers & Explorers, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Oceania
Publication Year
1997
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
2
LCCN
98-149683
Intended Audience
College Audience
Lc Classification Number
Du626.O28 1997
Edition Description
Revised Edition
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There are so many ways of patronizing the past, [Obeyesekere] as good as says, and one of them is to accept your own culture's version of it. For this reason alone, his book would be stimulating. But there is more, much of it centering around the personality of James Cook himself. That familiar, Queegish figure of a ship's master obsessed with theft, increasingly unhinged by whatever private ghosts ... is surely worth examining., "The whole book is admirable, impeccable, even at times brilliant."-- Simon Schama, The Washington Times, Winner of the 1992 Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Winner of the 1993 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in History, Association of American Publishers, "Without question the most provocative reassessment of the famed explorer's demise.... Obeyesekere has made a persuasive case for his counternarrative of Captain Cook, strongly supporting it with a fine-grained analysis of an impressive array of cultural material, some of it long submerged...."-- Amy Burce, The Sciences, A fascinating and important book . . . Obeyesekere examines [Cook's] murder and the events leading up to it in a fresh way. -- Robert L. Levy, The New York Times Book Review, "There are so many ways of patronizing the past, [Obeyesekere] as good as says, and one of them is to accept your own culture's version of it. For this reason alone, his book would be stimulating. But there is more, much of it centering around the personality of James Cook himself. That familiar, Queegish figure of a ship's master obsessed with theft, increasingly unhinged by whatever private ghosts ... is surely worth examining."-- James Hamilton-Paterson, The New Republic, "The whole book is admirable, impeccable, even at times brilliant." --Simon Schama, The Washington Times, "A fascinating and important book . . . Obeyesekere examines [Cook's] murder and the events leading up to it in a fresh way."-- Robert L. Levy, The New York Times Book Review, "In The Apotheosis of Captain Cook , a fascinating and important book, Gananath Obeyesekere ... examines the murder and the events leading up to it in a fresh way. He enlarges the debate about how we think not only about our own diminishing collection of heroes, but also about the outsiders of European history, in this case the eighteenth-century Hawaiians." --Robert I. Levy, The New York Times Book Review, In The Apotheosis of Captain Cook , a fascinating and important book, Gananath Obeyesekere ... examines the murder and the events leading up to it in a fresh way. He enlarges the debate about how we think not only about our own diminishing collection of heroes, but also about the outsiders of European history, in this case the eighteenth-century Hawaiians., Without question the most provocative reassessment of the famed explorer's demise.... Obeyesekere has made a persuasive case for his counternarrative of Captain Cook, strongly supporting it with a fine-grained analysis of an impressive array of cultural material, some of it long submerged.... -- Amy Burce, The Sciences, The whole book is admirable, impeccable, even at times brilliant. -- Simon Schama, The Washington Times, In The Apotheosis of Captain Cook , a fascinating and important book, Gananath Obeyesekere ... examines the murder and the events leading up to it in a fresh way. He enlarges the debate about how we think not only about our own diminishing collection of heroes, but also about the outsiders of European history, in this case the eighteenth-century Hawaiians. -- Robert I. Levy, The New York Times Book Review, "Without question the most provocative reassessment of the famed explorer's demise.... Obeyesekere has made a persuasive case for his counternarrative of Captain Cook, strongly supporting it with a fine-grained analysis of an impressive array of cultural material, some of it long submerged...." --Amy Burce, The Sciences, "Without question the most provocative reassessment of the famed explorer's demise.... Obeyesekere has made a persuasive case for his counternarrative of Captain Cook, strongly supporting it with a fine-grained analysis of an impressive array of cultural material, some of it long submerged." --Amy Burce, The Sciences, InThe Apotheosis of Captain Cook, a fascinating and important book, Gananath Obeyesekere ... examines the murder and the events leading up to it in a fresh way. He enlarges the debate about how we think not only about our own diminishing collection of heroes, but also about the outsiders of European history, in this case the eighteenth-century Hawaiians. -- Robert I. Levy, The New York Times Book Review, InThe Apotheosis of Captain Cook, a fascinating and important book, Gananath Obeyesekere ... examines the murder and the events leading up to it in a fresh way. He enlarges the debate about how we think not only about our own diminishing collection of heroes, but also about the outsiders of European history, in this case the eighteenth-century Hawaiians., Winner of the 1993 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in History, Association of American Publishers, Without question the most provocative reassessment of the famed explorer's demise.... Obeyesekere has made a persuasive case for his counternarrative of Captain Cook, strongly supporting it with a fine-grained analysis of an impressive array of cultural material, some of it long submerged...., "There are so many ways of patronizing the past, [Obeyesekere] as good as says, and one of them is to accept your own culture's version of it. For this reason alone, his book would be stimulating. But there is more, much of it centering around the personality of James Cook himself. That familiar, Queegish figure of a ship's master obsessed with theft, increasingly unhinged by whatever private ghosts ... is surely worth examining." --James Hamilton-Paterson, The New Republic, A fascinating and important book . . . Obeyesekere examines [Cook's] murder and the events leading up to it in a fresh way., There are so many ways of patronizing the past, [Obeyesekere] as good as says, and one of them is to accept your own culture's version of it. For this reason alone, his book would be stimulating. But there is more, much of it centering around the personality of James Cook himself. That familiar, Queegish figure of a ship's master obsessed with theft, increasingly unhinged by whatever private ghosts ... is surely worth examining. -- James Hamilton-Paterson, The New Republic, "A fascinating and important book . . . Obeyesekere examines [Cook's] murder and the events leading up to it in a fresh way." --Robert L. Levy, The New York Times Book Review, "In The Apotheosis of Captain Cook , a fascinating and important book, Gananath Obeyesekere ... examines the murder and the events leading up to it in a fresh way. He enlarges the debate about how we think not only about our own diminishing collection of heroes, but also about the outsiders of European history, in this case the eighteenth-century Hawaiians."-- Robert I. Levy, The New York Times Book Review
Copyright Date
1992
Dewey Decimal
996.902
Dewey Edition
21
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