Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton Audiobooks

About the author

Born in Pennsylvania in 1837, Daniel Garrison Brinton studied at Yale, trained in medicine at Jefferson Medical College, and continued his studies in Europe. During the Civil War he served as a surgeon, an experience that formed one part of a career that moved easily between science, history, and public life.

Brinton became one of the early leading figures in American anthropology. He taught in Philadelphia and at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is remembered as an important early professor of archaeology, linguistics, and anthropology. His work focused especially on the peoples, languages, and mythologies of the Americas, and he published widely on Native American traditions, comparative religion, and ethnology.

Readers meeting Brinton today will find a 19th-century scholar with enormous curiosity and energy. Although some of his ideas reflect the limits and assumptions of his era, his books helped shape early American anthropology and preserve a large body of material on Indigenous languages and belief systems.

Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

26 Audiobooks

Nagualism: A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History

American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent

The Battle and the Ruins of Cintla

Ancient Nahuatl Poetry, Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII.

The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America

The Books of Chilan Balam: The Prophetic and Historic Records of the Mayas of Yucatan

A Guide-Book of Florida and the South for Tourists, Invalids and Emigrants

Notes on the Floridian Peninsula; Its Literary History, Indian Tribes and Antiquities

The Lenâpé and Their Legends With the complete text and symbols of the Walam olum, a new translation, and an inquiry into its authenticity

Aboriginal American Authors

The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb

An Ethnologist's View of History An Address Before the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Historical Society, at Trenton, New Jersey, January 28, 1896

Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography

A Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics

The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion

The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Studies and Strowings

A Record of Study in Aboriginal American Languages

American Languages, and Why We Should Study Them

The Basis of Social Relations: A Study in Ethnic Psychology

The Ancient Phonetic Alphabet of Yucatan

The American Race A Linguistic Classification and Ethnographic Description of the Native Tribes of North and South America

Religions of Primitive Peoples

Essays of an Americanist I. Ethnologic and Archæologic. II. Mythology and Folk Lore. III. Graphic Systems and Literature. IV. Linguistic.

Anthropology As a Science and as a Branch of University Education in the United States

The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations

Notes on the Mangue: An Extinct Dialect Formerly Spoken in Nicaragua

About the author