By foregrounding the stratification of cultural agencies underlying the text, this article analyses the conceptualization of human otherness in the official account of James Cook's third voyage, published in 1784. The close reading focuses on the case study of indigenous people encountered during Cook's journey up the west coast of North America. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean is an excellent vantage point from which to examine the intimate connections between time, power, and knowledge, which characterized eighteenth-century European culture. Drawing on existing scholarship, this study takes a closer look at John Douglas's hitherto neglected introduction to the first edition of the account, treating it as a conceptual threshold to the text and addressing the relationship between it and the main body of the account.

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库克第三次远航记中北美原住民的文本建构

通过突出文本背后的文化机构分层，本文分析了 1784 年出版的詹姆斯库克第三次航行的官方账户中人类差异性的概念化。北美西海岸。太平洋之旅是考察时间、权力和知识之间密切联系的绝佳视角，这是 18 世纪欧洲文化的特征。借鉴现有的学术成果，这项研究仔细研究了约翰·道格拉斯迄今为止被忽视的第一版帐户介绍，将其视为文本的概念门槛，并解决了它与帐户主体之间的关系。