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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.

Ethnology --- Hawaii --- History --- Alcohol addiction. --- American settlers. --- Aztecs. --- Bayly, William (astronomer). --- Beckwith, Martha. --- Biography. --- Borabora (island). --- Byron, John Captain. --- Cannnibalism. --- Ceremonial prostration. --- Chamisso, Adelbert von. --- Chariot, John. --- Clendinnen, Inga. --- Cowper, William. --- Davis, Issac. --- Deification. --- Dixon, George. --- Eimeo. --- Ethnography. --- European myths. --- European settlers. --- Fornander, Abraham. --- Forster, George. --- Frazer. --- Frost, Alan. --- Godelier, Maurice. --- Graham, Maria. --- Grass Cove, resistance at. --- Hawaiian state. --- Herod, King. --- Imperialism. --- Improvisational creativity. --- Installation ceremony. --- Intertribal warfare. --- Koah, priest. --- Kurtz persona. --- Kāne, Hawaiian deity. --- Lahainaluna seminary. --- Little, George. --- Loutherbourg, Jacques de. --- Mai (Tahitian). --- Maori people. --- Missionaries. --- New Hebrides. --- Otherness. --- Polynesian ethnography. --- Priests. --- Pseudo-history. --- Quetzalcoatl. --- Resurrection and return. --- Ritual drama. --- Royal Society. --- conquistadors.