How "natives" think : about Captain Cook, for example / Marshall Sahlins.

The apotheosis of Captain Cook : European mythmaking in the Pacific / Gananath Obeyesekere ; with a new afterword by the author.

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How "natives" think : about Captain Cook, for example / Marshall Sahlins.

The apotheosis of Captain Cook : European mythmaking in the Pacific / Gananath Obeyesekere ; with a new afterword by the author.