Daniel Garrison Brinton: 7 books

5 works of Daniel Garrison Brinton American archaeologist and ethnologist (1837-1899) This ebook presents a collection of 5 works of Daniel Garrison Brinton. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - 1885 - Did Cortez visit...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Güegüence; A Comedy Ballet in the Nahuatl-Spanish Dialect of Nicaragua. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published...

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     § 2. THE POET AND HIS WORK      § 3. THE THEMES AND CLASSES OF THE SONGS      § 4. PROSODY OF THE SONGS      § 5.

Most readers are quite familiar with the fact that a well-developed method of picture writing, or "didactic painting," as it has been appropriately named, prevailed through Mexico and Central America for centuries before the conquest. But that, in the latter country, there was a true phonetic alphabet,...

One and the same hieroglyphic system is found on remains from Yucatan, Tabasco, Chiapas, Guatemala, and Western Honduras; in other words, in all Central American regions occupied at the Conquest by tribes of the Mayan linguistic stock. It has not been shown to prevail among the Huastecan branch of...

I express myself, says Bishop Butler, "with caution, lest I should be mistaken to vilify reason, which is, indeed, the only faculty which we have to judge concerning anything, even revelation itself; or be misunderstood to assert that a supposed revelation cannot be proved false from internal characters."...