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Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
1837–1899
A pioneering American archaeologist, ethnologist, and linguist, he helped bring the study of Indigenous American languages and cultures into the academic mainstream. Trained as a physician, he wrote widely for both scholars and general readers and became a major voice in nineteenth-century anthropology.
26 Audiobooks
Nagualism: A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
Ancient Nahuatl Poetry, Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Myths of the New World
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Lenâpé and Their Legends
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
A Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The American Race
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Basis of Social Relations: A Study in Ethnic Psychology
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
Aboriginal American Authors
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Studies and Strowings
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
Notes on the Floridian Peninsula; Its Literary History, Indian Tribes and Antiquities
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
Essays of an Americanist
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Religious Sentiment
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Books of Chilan Balam: The Prophetic and Historic Records of the Mayas of Yucatan
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Ancient Phonetic Alphabet of Yucatan
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
An Ethnologist's View of History
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
Religions of Primitive Peoples
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
A Guide-Book of Florida and the South for Tourists, Invalids and Emigrants
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
A Record of Study in Aboriginal American Languages
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Battle and the Ruins of Cintla
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
Anthropology
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
Notes on the Mangue: An Extinct Dialect Formerly Spoken in Nicaragua
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
American Languages, and Why We Should Study Them
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
About the author
Born in Thornbury Township, Pennsylvania, in 1837, Daniel Garrison Brinton studied at Yale and then at Jefferson Medical College before continuing his education in Europe. Although trained in medicine, he became best known for his work in archaeology, ethnology, and linguistics, especially his studies of the peoples and languages of the Americas.
Brinton taught at the University of Pennsylvania and was among the leading American anthropological scholars of his time. He wrote extensively on Native American traditions, myths, and languages, and his books helped shape how many nineteenth-century readers encountered these subjects.
His work also reflects the limits and assumptions of his era, which makes him an important figure both for what he contributed and for how the human sciences developed in the late nineteenth century. He died in 1899, leaving behind a large body of writing at the crossroads of medicine, language study, and early anthropology.