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Aboriginal American Authors

Daniel Brinton

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011-08-04
主題	History / United States / General
ISBN	14637847679781463784768
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fUBJyAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Brinton's work is a good summary of the better known traditional writings of Indians from many regions of the Western hemisphere. This bibliographical survey provides information on tribal histories that would be particularly useful for Indian Study Programs in the states of Oklahoma, New York and Wisconsin.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; was the editor of a weekly periodical, the Medical and Surgical Reporter, in Philadelphia from 1874 to 1887; became professor of ethnology and archaeology in the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia in 1884; and was professor of American linguistics and archaeology in the University of Pennsylvania from 1886 until his death.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 Folklore Society, the American Philosophical Society, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.