The Apotheosis of Captain Cook

European Mythmaking in the Pacific

Auteurs

• Gananath Obeyesekere

Paramètres

• 272 pages
• 10 heures de lecture

• Anthropologie
• Ethnologie
• Nonfiction
• Sciences sociales
• Thème historique

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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.

Achat du livre

• Année de publication: 1992
• Reliure: (souple),
• État du livre: Bon
• Prix: 14,99 €