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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-13 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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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 s
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Pages: 340
Authors: Marshall Sahlins
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-05-22 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In his 1992 book, The Apotheosis of Captain Cook, Gananath Obeyesekere used this very issue to attack Sahlins's decades of scholarship on Hawaii. Accusing Sahli
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Pages: 435
Authors: Anna Della Subin
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-07 - Publisher: Metropolitan Books

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE, THE IRISH TIMES AND THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT A provocative history of men who were worshipped as gods that illumi
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Language: en
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Essays reassess Cook's standing as a leading figure in eighteenth-century history, exploration and the advancement of science.
Buddhism Transformed
Language: en
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Authors: Richard Gombrich
Categories: Social Science
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In this study a social and cultural anthropologist and a specialist in the study of religion pool their talents to examine recent changes in popular religion in