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Tables of Contents for The Apotheosis of Captain Cook
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
xi
2
PREFACE (1997)
xiii
4
PREFACE
xvii
I
3
20
Captain Cook and the European Imagination
3
5
Myth Models
8
7
Improvisation, Rationality, and Savage Thought
15
8
II
23
26
The Third Coming: A Flashback to the South Seas
23
11
The Visit to Tahiti and the Destruction of Eimeo
34
6
The Discovery of Hawai`i
40
9
III
49
25
The Thesis of the Apotheosis
49
11
Further Objections to the Apotheosis: Maculate Perceptions and Cultural Conceptions
60
6
Anthropology and Pseudo-History
66
8
IV
74
28
Politics and the Apotheosis: A Hawaiian Perspective
74
18
The Other Lono: Omiah, the Dalai Lama of the Hawaiians
92
3
Cook, Lono, and the Makahiki Festival
95
7
V
102
18
The Narrative Resumed: The Last Days
102
7
The Death of Cook: British and Hawaiian Versions
109
11
VI
120
34
Language Games and the European Apotheosis of James Cook
120
11
The Humanist Myth in New Zealand History
131
6
The Resurrection and Return of James Cook
137
5
The Versions of the Apotheosis in the Traditions of Sea Voyagers
142
12
VII
154
23
Cook, Fornication, and Evil: The Myth of the Missionaries
154
9
On Native Histories: Myth, Debate, and Contentious Discourse
163
8
Monterey Melons; or, A Native's Reflection on the Topic of Tropical Tropes
171
6
VIII
177
16
Myth Models in Anthropological Narrative
177
10
The Mourning and the Aftermath
187
6
AFTERWORD: ON DE-SAHLINIZATION
193
58
APPENDIX I The Destruction of Hikiau and the Death of William Watman
251
4
APPENDIX II Kali`i and the Divinity of Kings
255
4
NOTES
259
40
BIBLIOGRAPHY
299
8
INDEX
307