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The apotheosis of Captain Cook: European mythmaking in the Pacific

Gananath Obeyesekere c1997 © Princeton University Press
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  • 9781400843848 (ebook)
  • 9780691057521 (paper)
Subject
  • Australasian/Oceanian
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  • Frontmatter
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (page xi)
  • PREFACE (1997) (page xiii)
  • PREFACE (page xvii)
  • I
    • Captain Cook and the European Imagination (page 3)
    • Myth Models (page 8)
    • Improvisation, Rationality, and Savage Thought (page 15)
  • II
    • The Third Coming: A Flashback to the South Seas (page 23)
    • The Visit to Tahiti and the Destruction of Eimeo (page 34)
    • The Discovery of Hawai'i (page 40)
  • III
    • The Thesis of the Apotheosis (page 49)
    • Further Objections to the Apotheosis: Maculate Perceptions and Cultural Conceptions (page 60)
    • Anthropology and Pseudo-History (page 66)
  • IV
    • Politics and the Apotheosis: A Hawaiian Perspective (page 74)
    • The Other Lono: Omiah, the Dalai Lama of the Hawaiians (page 92)
    • Cook, Lono, and the Makahiki Festival (page 95)
  • V
    • The Narrative Resumed: The Last Days (page 102)
    • The Death of Cook: British and Hawaiian Versions (page 109)
  • VI
    • Language Games and the European Apotheosis of James Cook (page 120)
    • The Humanist Myth in New Zealand History (page 131)
    • The Resurrection and Return of James Cook (page 137)
    • The Versions of the Apotheosis in the Traditions of Sea Voyagers (page 142)
  • VII
    • Cook, Fornication, and Evil: The Myth of the Missionaries (page 154)
    • On Native Histories: Myth, Debate, and Contentious Discourse (page 163)
    • Monterey Melons; or, A Native's Reflection on the Topic of Tropical Tropes (page 171)
  • VIII
    • Myth Models in Anthropological Narrative (page 177)
    • The Mourning and the Aftermath (page 187)
  • AFTERWORD: ON DE-SAHLINIZATION (page 193)
  • APPENDIX I The Destruction of Hikiau and the Death of William Watman (page 251)
  • APPENDIX II Kāli'i and the Divinity of Kings (page 255)
  • NOTES (page 259)
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 299)
  • INDEX (page 307)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
PA 67.1 (Spring, 1994): 159-160 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2760163
JRAI 1.4 (Dec. 1995): 851-852 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3034983
HR 35.2 (Nov. 1995): 185-187 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1062696
A 25.4 (Winter, 1993): 756-757 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4051382
ETH 41.2 (Spring, 1994): 325-327 http://www.jstor.org/stable/482838
AHR 99.5 (Dec. 1994): 1637-1638 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2168392
ENHR 110.438 (Sep. 1995): 976-977 http://www.jstor.org/stable/576827
AE 22.1 (Feb. 1995): 196-197 http://www.jstor.org/stable/646059
AANTH 95.3 (Sep. 1993): 762-763 http://www.jstor.org/stable/679703
WMQ 54.1 (Jan. 1997): 253-259 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2953319
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