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The Apotheosis of Captain Cook

European Mythmaking in the Pacific

by Gananath Obeyesekere

A critique of the view that Hawaiians took Captain Cook for the god Lono. Obeyesekere argues that the idea was a European myth and questions how anthropologists represent the thought of other peoples.

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