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Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
1837–1899
A Civil War surgeon turned pioneering scholar of the Americas, he helped bring the study of Indigenous languages, myths, and histories into the early academic mainstream in the United States.
26 Audiobooks
Nagualism: A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Battle and the Ruins of Cintla
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
Ancient Nahuatl Poetry, Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII.
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
A Guide-Book of Florida and the South for Tourists, Invalids and Emigrants
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Lenâpé and Their Legends With the complete text and symbols of the Walam olum, a new translation, and an inquiry into its authenticity
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
Notes on the Floridian Peninsula; Its Literary History, Indian Tribes and Antiquities
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
Aboriginal American Authors
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
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
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
A Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Studies and Strowings
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
A Record of Study in Aboriginal American Languages
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Ancient Phonetic Alphabet of Yucatan
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The American Race A Linguistic Classification and Ethnographic Description of the Native Tribes of North and South America
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
American Languages, and Why We Should Study Them
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Basis of Social Relations: A Study in Ethnic Psychology
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
Anthropology As a Science and as a Branch of University Education in the United States
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
Religions of Primitive Peoples
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
Essays of an Americanist I. Ethnologic and Archæologic. II. Mythology and Folk Lore. III. Graphic Systems and Literature. IV. Linguistic.
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
Notes on the Mangue: An Extinct Dialect Formerly Spoken in Nicaragua
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
About the author
Born in Pennsylvania in 1837, he studied at Yale and then at Jefferson Medical College before continuing his education in Europe. During the American Civil War, he served as a surgeon and later as Medical Director of the II Army Corps, a role that placed him close to some of the war’s hardest campaigns.
After the war, he became one of the best-known American writers on archaeology and ethnology. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and published widely on Native American languages, traditions, and belief systems, including editorial work on the Library of Aboriginal American Literature. He is also remembered for an 1891 classification of Indigenous languages of the Americas.
His work helped shape anthropology as an academic field in the late nineteenth century, even though some of his ideas reflect the limits and biases of his era. He died in 1899, leaving behind a large body of writing that still appears in histories of American archaeology, linguistics, and ethnology.