Obeyesekere was the rajni kothari chair professor at csds from october 2008 to april 2009. Comparing and explaining different cultures 57 that the former mistook captain cook for their god. Gananath obeyesekere is professor of anthropology, emeritus, at princeton university. 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. Captain cook and how we understand him, geographical.
He is most interested in psychoanalysis and anthropology and the ways in which personal symbolism is related to religious experience. 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. Questioning the circumstances surrounding cooks socalled divinity or apotheosis and his death, gananath obeyesekere debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism. Reading book doesnt indicate to bring the published how natives think. His books include land tenure in village ceylon, medusas hair, the cult of the goddess pattini, buddhism transformed coauthor, the work of culture, the apotheosis of captain cook. View enhanced pdf access article on wiley online library html view download pdf for offline viewing. 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. It begins by providing a backdrop to early european portrayals of captain cook and then proceeds to investigate how these portrayals changed as they were. Cook, lono, know how events are ordered by culture, but.
European mythmaking in the pacific threatened to destroy. Gananath obeyesekere, the apotheosis of captain cook. 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. Changing portrayals of captain james cook in hawaiian education christopher aaron straub this paper covers the portrayals of captain james cook within hawaiian education. Whose version will prevail is still open to question but this much is certain. The apotheosis of captain cook european mythmaking in the pacific by gananath obeyesekere. A requiem for sri vikrama rajasinha, about the last. 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. The xixime are noted for their reported practice of cannibalism and resistance to spanish colonization in the form of the xixime rebellion of 1610.
He delivered the annual rajni kothari chair lecture on buddhism, political violence and the dilemmas of democracy in sri lanka at csds on 24 april 2009. The sahlinsobeyesekere debate is an academic controversy in anthropology about the death of the british explorer james cook, particularly whether the native hawaiians believed him to be lono, a deity or akua associated with fertility, agriculture, rainfall, music and peace. Cookforster collection online images and descriptions of more than 300 artefacts collected during the three pacific voyages of james cook. Gananath obeyesekere is an emeritus professor of anthropology whose latest book is the doomed king.
People gananath obeyesekere the heyman center for the. European mythmaking in the pacific by gananath obeyesekere. Also, you can read online captain cook and the pacific full book. 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. Obeyesekere insisted that indigenous people thought in essentially the same way as westerners and was concerned that any argument otherwise would paint them. When western scholars write about nonwestern societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of european imperialism. Gananath obeyesekere has engaged in fieldwork in sri lanka and india. The apotheosis of captain cook princeton university press. The debate took shape in 1992, when gananath obeyesekere published the apotheosis of captain cook, which criticized. Captain james cook a personal selection of books about cook. 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 illustrating how and why binary interpretations of cooks death render a shallow examination of associated travel texts, the thesis reexamines two travel journals resulting from cooks third and final voyagejournals from the. Comparative studies in religion and society mark juergensmeyer, editor 1. Captain cook available for download and read online in other formats. Download full captain cook and the pacific book in pdf, epub, mobi and all ebook format. Cook, lono, obeyesekere, and sahlins ca forum on theory in. A cross cultural study on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Obeyesekere won two awards for the book, the louis the. Symbolic transformation in psychoanalysis and anthropology. Merely link to the internet to get this book how natives think. Read book apotheosis of captain cook cook the apotheosis of captain cook princeton university press captain cooks apotheosis. Obeyesekere attacked sahlins theory of cook as lono. Archival material relating to james cook listed at the uk national archives. European mythmaking in the pacific 1997, the work of culture.
Can they ever articulate the meanings and logics of nonwestern peoples. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Cook himself, obeyesekere adds sympathetically, was a man caught between social. On a return trip, after a futile attempt to discover the. In january 1778 captain james cook discovered the hawaiian islands and was hailed by the native peoples as their returning god lono. The many deaths of captain cook a study in metropolitan. The apotheosis of captain cook european mythmaking in the pacific by gananath obeyesekere skip to article content. Roger smith we shall soon see the consequences of such. Imagining karma obeyesekere, imagining karma 71502 9. About captain cook, for example, by marshall sahlins. European mythmaking in the pacific, and the awakened ones. Now the genius of britain forbids us to grieve, since cook, ever honord, immortal shall live.
European mythmaking in the pacific by gananath obeyesekere paperback. 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. In these accounts obeyesekere sees cook as both the selfconscious civilizer and as the person who, his mission gone awry. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. In this new edition of the apotheosis of captain cook, the author addresses, in a lengthy afterword, marshall sahlins. Questioning the circumstances surrounding cooks socalled divinity or apotheosis and his death, gananath obeyesekere debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest. Karma and rebirth by gananath obeyesekere at vedic books. Questioning the circumstances surrounding cooks socalled divinity. About captain cook, for example sahlins, marshall on. 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. Rex nan kivell 1898 1977 was a great collector, a great storyteller and an endless inventor of his own history. Rather, they must have regarded and treated him as a chief. 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. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search.
Ethical transformation in amerindian, buddhist, and greek rebirth california, 2002, the apotheosis of captain cook. Available in the national library of australia collection. Gananath obeyesekere in january 1778 captain james cook discovered the hawaiian islands and was hailed by the native peoples as their returning god lono. Gananath obeyesekere is emeritus professor of anthropology at princeton university and has done much work in his home.
We read captain cooks adventures amongst various savage islanders, and even his death by their hands, without any very startling or exceptional. Gananath obeyesekeres latest book is, like his earlier work, concerned with the process in which symbolic forms, such as ritual and myth, are created and recreated. James cook frs 7 november 1728 nb 1 14 february 1779 was a british explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the british royal navy. Questioning the circumstances surrounding cook s socalled divinity. Cannibal talk by gananath obeyesekere ebook university. The many deaths of captain cook what an immense difference there is between hearing of an extraordinary fact between even believing it, and witnessing the same fact in proper person. Captain cook and the pacific pdf epub download cause of. In fact sekere is on target, so to speak, in his analysis. Obeyesekeres the apotheosis of captain cook is a polemic, often wrongheaded in my view, but always provocative. He has recently become interested in european voyages of discovery to polynesia in the 18th century and after, and the implications of these voyages for the development of. Ebook the apotheosis of captain cook as pdf download. 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. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. He made detailed maps of newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the pacific ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded european contact with the eastern coastline of australia and the hawaiian islands, and the first recorded.
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