Merging the sentimental and the exemplary, in this process of. About captain cook, for example, by marshall sahlins. People gananath obeyesekere the heyman center for the. The death of captain cook white rose etheses online. In january 1778 captain james cook discovered the hawaiian islands and was hailed by the native peoples as their returning god lono. In sahlinss opinion, the main reason cook was regarded as their god is that his arrival coincided with a festival called makahiki. A cross cultural study on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. As with smith and dening, i found that reading obeyesekere sharpened my own thinking about cook and provided an antidote to the hagiographic, anglocentric tone of much thats been written about the captain. In the apotheosis of captain cook sri lankan scholar gananath obeyesekere questions this fact of history, arguing that it was the europeans, and not the natives, who found a need to establish their colonization of new worlds on the notion of deities come home. His hypothesis is based on the myth models pertaining to the redoubtable explorer cum civiliser who is a god to the natives obeyesekere 1992. Using shipboard journals and logs kept by captain james cook and his officers, obeyesekere reveals the captain as both the selfconscious civilizer and as the person who, his mission gone awry, becomes a savage himself. By the time cook died in 1779, he had created charts so accurate that some were used into the 1990s. The apotheosis of captain cook european mythmaking in the pacific. Get ebooks return to kahiki on pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi and audiobook for free.
The apotheosis of captain cook princeton university press. European mythmaking in the pacific paperback by obeyesekere, gananath published by princeton university press. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Table of contents for the apotheosis of captain cook. Comparative studies in religion and society mark juergensmeyer, editor 1. Reading book doesnt indicate to bring the published how natives think. Using shipboard journals and logs kept by captain james cook and his officers, obeyesekere reveals the captain as both the selfconscious. European mythmaking in the pacific, by gananath obeyesekere.
Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Before his appointment to princeton, obeyesekere held teaching positions at the university of ceylon, the university of washington and the university of california, san diego. In the apotheosis of captain cook, a fascinating and important book, gananath obeyesekere. Obeyesekere questions the apotheosis of captain cook as a fact.
Sahlins argues against gananth obeyesekere, who holds in the apotheosis of captain cook 1997. In doing so, i shall examine the controversy between two cultural anthropologists. Thus europe was able to combine its fantasy of deification with its. Merely link to the internet to get this book how natives think.
The battle over captain cooks corpse part 2 god knows. The voyages of captain james cook is a handsome illustrated edition of cook s selected writings spanning his pacific voyages, ending in 1779 with the delivery of his salted scalp and hands to his surviving crewmembers. Completing fieldwork in sri lanka and india, obeyesekere s research considers the ways in which personal symbolism is related to religious experience. Captain cook and the pacific pdf epub download cause of. The case of captain cook yoshida kei university of tokyo 1. In this new edition of the apotheosis of captain cook, the author addresses, in a lengthy afterword, marshall sahlins. Captain cook available for download and read online in other formats. Introduction the aim of this paper is to reconsider the problem of comparing and explaining different cultures or their aspects under concepts of rationality.
The awakened ones is the most sustained and powerful treatment since william james of the forms of knowledge and life that visionary experience makes possible. European mythmaking in the pacific by gananath obeyesekere. Karma and rebirth by gananath obeyesekere at vedic books. Wilson university of hawaii at manoa lynne withey, voyages of discovery. A requiem for sri vikrama rajasinha, about the last. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Questioning the circumstances surrounding cook s socalled divinity.
He is most interested in psychoanalysis and anthropology and the ways in which personal symbolism is related to religious experience. Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the library of congress catalog. Examine the arguments between obeyesekere and sahlins over the hawaiians views of captain cook. Since obeyesekere was the one who kicked the whole debate off when he published the apotheosis of captain cook in 1992 probably the best way to start is by presenting his major points of contention and then moving on to look at the rebuttals and counter rebuttals that these have lead to. The apotheosis of captain cook national library of australia.
Gananath obeyesekere, the apotheosis of captain cook. Gananath obeyesekere is an emeritus professor of anthropology whose latest book is the doomed king. Obeyesekere s the apotheosis of captain cook is a polemic, often wrongheaded in my view, but always provocative. 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. Of all published articles, the following were the most read within the past 12 months. Cook and joseph banks as embarked upon a civilising mission. This john cook married, on the 19th january 1693, a woman named jean duncan, by whom he had a son, james, baptised 4th march 1694, and this child, johnston positively asserts, was afterwards the father of the future captain cook. Sahlins claimed that cook s arrival in hawaii came at just the time in the hawaiian ritual cycle when they expected a god to appear, so they worshipped him as a god. Yet he does not seem to think that they can merge or cre. The apotheosis of captain cook is, according to obeyesekere, an example of european mythmaking for european purposes, and those purposes are little different from the ones that inspired the images of prospero and caliban in shakespeares the tempest. Encoding has been done through automated and manual processes using the recommendations for level 2 of. Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. Cook, lono, know how events are ordered by culture, but. What does captain cook have to tell us about culture.
Hawaiians regarded captain james cook as one of their gods lono when his ships, the discovery and the resolution, arrived at the hawaii islands on january 17th, 1779. Captain james cook a personal selection of books about cook. Gananath obeyesekere in january 1778 captain james cook discovered the hawaiian islands and was hailed by the native peoples as their returning god lono. Captain james cook as god of the natives history essay. On a return trip, after a futile attempt to discover the. Obeyesekere also critiques several of the approaches taken by todorov and the latters reliance upon spanish conquistador. Obeyesekere argues that not only did cooks contemporaries and his. In the apotheosis of captain cook sri lankan scholar gananath obeyesekere questions this fact of history, arguing that it was the europeans, and not the. European mythmaking in the pacific gananath obeyesekere.
Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small scale indigenous societies of west africa, melanesia, and north america, obeyesekere compares their ideas with those of the ancient and modern indic civilizations and with the. Gananath obeyesekere s latest book is, like his earlier work, concerned with the process in which symbolic forms, such as ritual and myth, are created and recreated. Whose version will prevail is still open to question but this much is certain. Cook himself, obeyesekere adds sympathetically, was a man caught between social. Emeritus professor of anthropology at princeton university, gananath obeyesekere specializes in psychoanalysis and anthropology, hermeneutics, social anthropology, and buddhism. Although european thinkers see the greeks as their intellectual forebears, the greeks themselves looked toward the east for the sources of true wisdomto egypt, persia, and, during the early centuries of the common era, india. He enlarges the debate about how we think not only about our own diminishing collection of heroes, but also about the outsiders of european history, in this case the eighteenth. View enhanced pdf access article on wiley online library html view download pdf for offline viewing. About captain cook, for example, by marshall sahlins this is why we mean you to use and use the established modern technology. Always update books hourly, if not looking, search in the book search column. Unmaking an anthropological myth unmaking an anthropological myth tobin, jeffrey 19931201 00.
It is a remarkable combination of panoramic reference, detached analysis, and the most personal intensity of feeling and style. Ebook the apotheosis of captain cook as pdf download. The apotheosis of captain cook top results of your surfing the apotheosis of captain cook start download portable document format pdf and ebooks electronic books free online rating news 20162017 is books that can provide inspiration, insight, knowledge to the reader. In fact sekere is on target, so to speak, in his analysis. Scholars as varied as bernard smith and gananath obeyesekere are in broad. When building his argument in favor of merging cultural reproduction and. There are more than 1 million books that have been enjoyed by people from all over the world. Gananath obeyesekere has engaged in fieldwork in sri lanka and india. Cook available for download and read online in other formats. The xixime were an indigenous people who inhabited a portion of the sierra madre occidental mountains in the present day states of durango and sinaloa, mexico. Imagining karma obeyesekere, imagining karma 71502 9. Obeyesekere won two awards for the book, the louis the. In his opinion, the apotheosis is a mystification which he attributes to the european imagination of the 18th century.
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