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.
- ISBN10 0691036217
- ISBN13 9780691036212
- Publish Date 7 March 1994 (first published 15 July 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 December 1997
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 272
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/5023.html