Daniel Garrison Brinton
Daniel Garrison Brinton
| Dr Daniel Garrison Brinton | |||||||||
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| Born | 1837 | ||||||||
| Died | 1899 | ||||||||
| Residence | Media, Pennsylvania, USA | ||||||||
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archaeologist ethnologist armed services | ||||||||
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Office Notes
House Notes
1892.11.08 proposed for Hon. Membership
obit in Presidential address 1900 by C.H. Read
President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
death reported in report of the council for 1899
obit in Presidential address 1900
Notes From Elsewhere
Daniel Garrison Brinton (May 13, 1837 – July 31, 1899) was an American archaeologist and ethnologist.
Publications
External Publications
· · American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent.
· · Library of Aboriginal American Literature. No. VIII
· · Aboriginal American authors and their productions
· Notes on the Floridian Peninsula (1859)
· The Myths of the New World (1868), an attempt to analyse and correlate, scientifically, the mythology of the American Indians
· A Guide-Book of Florida and the South (1869)
· The Religious Sentiment: its Sources and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion (1876)
· American Hero Myths (1882)
· · The Annals of the Cakchiquels (1885)
· The Lenâpé and their Legends: With the Complete Text and Symbols of the Walam Olum (1885)
· · Ancient nahuatl poetry 1890
· Essays of an Americanist (1890)
· Races and Peoples: lectures on the science of ethnography (1890);
· The American Race (1891)
· The Pursuit of Happiness (1893)
· · Nagualism, A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History (1894)
· · The Taensa Grammar and Dictionary: A Deception Exposed. F. H. Revell. 1885. Retrieved 2013-04-24. (Exposé of the hoax grammar of the so-called · Taensa language.)
· Religions of Primitive People (1897)
In addition, he edited and published a Library of American Aboriginal Literature (8 vols. 1882-1890), a valuable contribution to the science of anthropology in America. Of the eight volumes; six were edited by Brinton himself, one by Horatio Hale and one by Albert Samuel Gatschet.[1] His 1885 work is notable for its role in the Walam Olum controversy.
House Publications
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