Daniel Garrison Brinton - Works

Physician and cultural anthropologist, born in Thornbury, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at Yale (1858), took a medical degree (1861), and studied abroad for a year before returning to serve as a Union army surgeon (1862–5). He retired from medical practice in 1887 to pursue anthropological research full time. His American Race (1891) was the first systematic classification of the aboriginal languages of the Americas, and his studies of the Mayans were landmarks in American archaeology.

Daniel Garrison Brinton (May 13, 1837-July 31, 1899), was an American archaeologist and ethnologist.

After the war, Brinton practiced medicine in West Chester, Pennsylvania for several years;

He was a member of numerous learned societies in the United States and in Europe and was president at different times of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, of the American Folk-Lore Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Works

From 1868 to 1899, Brinton wrote many books, and a large number of pamphlets, brochures, addresses and magazine articles. His works include:

The Myths of the New World (1868), an attempt to analyse and correlate, scientifically, the mythology of the American Indians The Religious Sentiment: its Sources and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion (1876) American Hero Myths (1882) The Lenâpé and their Legends: With the Complete Text and Symbols of the Walam Olum (1885) Essays of an Americanist (1890) Races and Peoples: lectures on the science of ethnography (1890); The American Race (1891) The Pursuit of Happiness (1893) Religions of Primitive People (1897)

In addition, he edited and published a Library of American Aboriginal Literature (8 vols.

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.