biography
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Brinton, Daniel Garrison
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| male
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| lived:
| (1837–99)
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| biography:
| Physician and cultural anthropologist, born in Thornbury, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at Yale (1858), took a medical degree (1861), and studied abroad for a year before returning to serve as a Union army surgeon (1862–5). He retired from medical practice in 1887 to pursue anthropological research full time. His American Race (1891) was the first systematic classification of the aboriginal languages of the Americas, and his studies of the Mayans were landmarks in American archaeology. |
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