Essays of an Americanist. I. Ethnologic and Archæologic. II. Mythology and Folk Lore. III. Graphic Systems and Literature. IV. Linguistic. By Daniel G. Brinton, A.M., M.D. [...]
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- Essays of an Americanist. I. Ethnologic and Archæologic. II. Mythology and Folk Lore. III. Graphic Systems and Literature. IV. Linguistic. By Daniel G. Brinton, A.M., M.D. [...]
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Essays of an Americanist. I. Ethnologic and Archæologic. II. Mythology and Folk Lore. III. Graphic Systems and Literature. IV. Linguistic. By Daniel G. Brinton, A.M., M.D. [...]
Author: Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison)
Year: 1890
Full title: Essays of an Americanist. I. Ethnologic and Archæologic. II. Mythology and Folk Lore. III. Graphic Systems and Literature. IV. Linguistic. By Daniel G. Brinton, A.M., M.D. Professor of American Archæology and Linguistics in the University of Pennsylvania, President of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, President of the American Folk-lore Society, Member of the American Antiquarian Society, The American Philosophical Society, The Sociétèi Américaine de France, The Berliner Anthropologische Gesellschaft, The Real Academia de Historia, Madrid, Etc., Etc. 8vo. pp. xii, 489. Illustrated. This work by Daniel Brinton (1837-1899) includes (pp. 452–67) ‘The Curious Hoax of the Taensa Language,’ the standard exposure of the invention of a native American language by Jean Parisot (1861–1923, a.k.a. Dom Marie-Jean Parisot, OSB), a young seminarian of Plombières (Vosges), who claimed to have inherited a manuscript account of it from his grandfather, Jean Dominique Haumonté. Parisot’s preliminary article in the Revue de linguistique et de philologie comparée caught the eye of the distinguished philologist Lucien Adam, who accepted it without question, and supplie