Psalmanazar

nationality

American

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anthropologist

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structuralist

is an anthropological informant who perpetrated an elaborate deception upon british literary, religious, and scholarly communities.

Rodney Necdham has brought the curious case of George Psalmanazar to the attention of contemporary anthropologist.'Psalmanazar's account of his Formosan origins presented to the British literary, religious, and scholarly communities an elaborate deception, thus concealing his true identity an identity, as we shall see, that can itself be gathered only through his 'confession' of his crime. (in Susan Stewart 1991 Psalmanazars Other)

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Rodney Needham