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A major reconsideration of the Assyrian Christian scholar and confidence man George Psalmanazar who dazzled eighteenth-century London in the disguise of a Chinese savant. Swiderski explores the fabulism and credulity of the time as well as analyzing the scientific curiosity aroused by Psalmanazar’s writings. Other Ethnicity and Race Books 2005 – Francophone Culture and the Postcolonial Fascination with Ethnic Crimes and Colonial Aura 1992 – Identity in Ethnic Leisure Pursuits 2003 – Discrimination Among Oppressed Populations
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