The apotheosis of Captain Cook : European mythmaking in the Pacific

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The apotheosis of Captain Cook : European mythmaking in the Pacific

Gananath Obeyesekere

Princeton University Press, [1997]

  • Princeton : pbk

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"with a new afterword by the author"

"New preface and afterword copyright 1997 by Princeton University Press" -- T.p. verso

"First Princeton Paperback printing, 1994" -- T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-306) and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • List of IllustrationsPrefaceCaptain Cook and the European Imagination3Myth Models8Improvisation Rationality and Savage Thought15The Third Coming: A Flashback to the South Seas23The Visit to Tahiti and the Destruction of Eimeo34The Discovery of Hawaii40The Thesis of the Apotheosis49Further Objections to the Apotheosis: Maculate Perceptions and Cultural Conceptions60Anthropology and Pseudo-History66Politics and the Apotheosis: A Hawaiian Perspective74The Other Lono: Omiah, the Dalai Lama of the Hawaiians92Cook, Lono, and the Makahiki Festival95The Narrative Resumed: The Last Days102The Death of Cook: British and Hawaiian Versions109Language Games and the European Apotheosis of James Cook120The Humanist Myth in New Zealand History131The Resurrection and Return of James Cook137The Versions of the Apotheosis in the Traditions of Sea Voyagers142Cook, Fornication, and Evil: The Myth of the Missionaries154On Native Histories: Myth, Debate, and Contentious Discourse163Monterey Melons
  • or, A Native's Reflection on the Topic of Tropical Tropes171Myth Models in Anthropological Narrative177The Mourning and the Aftermath187Afterword: On De-Sahlinization193Appendix I: The Destruction of Hikiau and the Death of William Watman251Appendix II: Kalii and the Divinity of Kings255Notes259Bibliography299Index307

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