Mongols in Western/American ConsciousnessThis 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. |
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Race | 25 |
Mongols as Mental Defectives | 55 |
The Mongol Body | 91 |
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