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(Paperback, Revised edition)
By: Gananath Obeyesekere
ISBN: 9780691057521
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. This work reveals the captain as both the self-conscious civilizer and as the person who, his mission gone awry, becomes a "savage" himself.
