How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example by Marshall Sahlins

How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example

Marshall Sahlins

328 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In recent years, these questions have arisen in debates over the death and deification of Captain James Cook on Hawai'i Island in 1779. Did the Hawaiians truly receive Cook as a manifestation of their own god Lono? Or were they too pragmatic, too...

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