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The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific

by Gananath Obeyesekere · 1992

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"In January 1778 Captain James Cook "discovered" the Hawaiian islands and was hailed by the native peoples as their returning god Lono.

History HistoriographyEthnologyDiscovery and ExplorationBeeldvormingEntmythologisierungDiscoveries in GeographyKulturkontaktKolonialismus

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"In January 1778 Captain James Cook "discovered" the Hawaiian islands and was hailed by the native peoples as their returning god Lono. On a return trip, after a futile attempt to discover the Northwest Passage, Cook was killed in what modern anthropologists and historians interpret as a ritual sacrifice of the fertility god. Questioning the circumstances surrounding Cook's so-called divinity - or apotheosis - and his death, 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. Through…

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