Mongols in Western/American consciousness

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Mongols in Western/American consciousness

Kevin Stuart

The Edwin Mellen Press, c1997

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-233) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This text examines the influence of medieval conceptions of the Mongols as monsters, how these impressions affected the creation of a "Mongol" racial category for mankind, what travellers observed and reported while in Mongol domains, the realm of fiction and film in the field of Mongolian studies.

目次

  • Part 1 Introduction: who are the Mongols?
  • Mongols and Tibetans
  • economies
  • nomads and barbarians
  • monsters
  • monsters today. Part 2 Race: westerners further describe and classify Mongols
  • the Kalmyks
  • Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
  • other Mongol accounts
  • Mongols in the 20th century
  • immigration and exclusion
  • conclusion. Part 3 Mongols as mental defectives: people with Trisomy 21 and the United States
  • language
  • "mongoloids" in literature
  • Dr. J.L.H. Down
  • "Kalmuc idiocy"
  • can degenerates degenerate?
  • conclusion. Part 4 The Mongol body: blue spots
  • the Mongolian eye. Part 5 Travellers in the deep dark heart of Asia: Roy Chapman Andrews
  • Owen Lattimore
  • two 18th-century travellers in Mongol areas
  • "you can't do that anymore"
  • A.D. Barnett
  • other westerners react to Mongol areas and Mongols
  • conclusion. Part 6 A fixation on the past - fiction, films and Mongolists: fiction
  • films
  • Mongolian studies. Part 7 Conclusion.

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