
Full title
Essays of an Americanist I. Ethnologic and Archæologic. II. Mythology and Folk Lore. III. Graphic Systems and Literature. IV. Linguistic.
Language
en
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Richard Tonsing, Julia Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2018-12-13
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

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.
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