Opis: Essays of an Americanist - Brinton Daniel G.

Excerpt from Essays of an Americanist: I. Ethnologic and Archologic; II. Mythology and Folk Lore; III. Graphic Systems and Literature; IV. Linguistic

The word "Essays" appears on the title of this book in the sense in which old Montaigne employed it - attempts, endeavors. The articles which make up the volume have been collected from many scattered sources, to which I have from time to time contributed them, for the definite purpose of endeavoring to vindicate certain opinions about debated subjects concerning the ancient population of the American continent.

In a number of points, as for example in the antiquity of man upon this continent, in the specific distinction of an American race, in the generic similarity of its languages, in recognizing its mythology as often abstract and symbolic, in the phonetic character of some of its graphic methods, in believing that its tribes possessed considerable poetic feeling, in maintaining the absolute autochthony of their culture - in these and in many other points referred to in the following pages I am at variance with most modern anthropologists; and these essays are to show more fully and connectedly than could their separate publication, what are my grounds for such opinions.

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Nazwa: Essays of an Americanist I. Ethnologic and Arch?ologic; II. Mythology and Folk Lore; III. Graphic Systems and Literature; IV. Linguistic (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Brinton Daniel G.
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330515235
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 490
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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