Obeyesekere joined Princeton’s faculty in 1980 and transferred to emeritus status in 2000. He chaired the anthropology ...

While on scene, crews noticed several neighboring smoke alarms were chirping from low batteries, but none were actively ...

His son Asita confirmed the death. Dr. Obeyesekere was born in a ... consciousness in 1992 with his book “The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific.” ...

Should they encounter the British captain James Cook ... In the ensuing melee, Cook was beaten and stabbed to death, along ...

With Kit Carson’s death-defying exploits at its center ... “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final voyage. Cook is a controversial historical figure ...

The Captain Cook Monument is a 27-foot obelisk that was erected in 1874 to memorialize where Cook died. He was killed in 1779 after a fight broke out between the Hawaiians and Westerners.