Table of Contents for Obeyesekere, G.: The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific.

The Apotheosis of Captain Cook:
European Mythmaking in the Pacific
Gananath Obeyesekere

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

List of Illustrations
Preface
Captain Cook and the European Imagination 3
Myth Models 8
Improvisation Rationality and Savage Thought 15
The Third Coming: A Flashback to the South Seas 23
The Visit to Tahiti and the Destruction of Eimeo 34
The Discovery of Hawaii 40
The Thesis of the Apotheosis 49
Further Objections to the Apotheosis: Maculate Perceptions and Cultural Conceptions 60
Anthropology and Pseudo-History 66
Politics and the Apotheosis: A Hawaiian Perspective 74
The Other Lono: Omiah, the Dalai Lama of the Hawaiians 92
Cook, Lono, and the Makahiki Festival 95
The Narrative Resumed: The Last Days 102
The Death of Cook: British and Hawaiian Versions 109
Language Games and the European Apotheosis of James Cook 120
The Humanist Myth in New Zealand History 131
The Resurrection and Return of James Cook 137
The Versions of the Apotheosis in the Traditions of Sea Voyagers 142
Cook, Fornication, and Evil: The Myth of the Missionaries 154
On Native Histories: Myth, Debate, and Contentious Discourse 163
Monterey Melons; or, A Native's Reflection on the Topic of Tropical Tropes 171
Myth Models in Anthropological Narrative 177
The Mourning and the Aftermath 187
Afterword: On De-Sahlinization 193
Appendix I: The Destruction of Hikiau and the Death of William Watman 251
Appendix II: Kalii and the Divinity of Kings 255
Notes 259
Bibliography 299
Index 307