Daniel Garrison Brinton eBooks
eBooks di Daniel Garrison Brinton editi da Edizioni Aurora Boreale
The Aims of Anthropology. E-book. Formato EPUB Daniel Garrison Brinton - Edizioni Aurora Boreale, 2024 -
Daniel Garrison Brinton (1837-1899) was an American surgeon, historian, archaeologist and ethnologist. After graduating from Yale University in 1858, he studied at Jefferson Medical College for two years and spent the next year travelling in Europe. He continued his studies at Paris and Heidelberg. From 1862 to 1865, during the American Civil War, he was a surgeon in the Union Army. He 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.From 1868 to 1899, Brinton wrote many books, and a large number of pamphlets, brochures, addresses and magazine articles.The Brinton's short essay The Aims of Anthropology, which we propose to our readers today, was published in November 1895 on the magazine Popular Science Monthly. It is an address of the retiring president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, delivered at Springfield, Massachussets, August 29, 1895.
American Hero-MythsA Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent. E-book. Formato EPUB Daniel Garrison Brinton - Edizioni Aurora Boreale, 2022 -
American Hero-Myths by Daniel Garrison Brinton, published first time in 1892, is still today one of the most important contributions to the comparative study of religions and an endeavor to present in a critically correct light some of the fundamental conceptions which are found in the native beliefs of the tribes of America.The importance of the study of myths has been abundantly shown of recent years, and the methods of analyzing them have been established with satisfactory clearness, but it has not yet even passed the stage where the distinction between myth and tradition has been recognized. Nearly all historians continue to write about some of the American Hero-Gods as if they had been chiefs of tribes at some undetermined epoch, and the effort to trace the migrations and affiliations of nations by similarities in such stories is of almost daily occurrence.