Races and Peoples

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Author

Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899

Title

Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography

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Produced by Julia Miller, Wayne Hammond and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

GN: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Anthropology

Subject

Ethnology

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Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 57315

Release Date

June 12, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.RACES AND PEOPLES LECTURES ON THE SCIENCE OF ETHNOGRAPHY BY DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D., Professor of Ethnology at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and of American Archæology and Linguistics in the University of Pennsylvania; President of the American Folk-Lore Society and of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia; Member of the Anthropological Societies of Berlin and Vienna and of the Ethnographical Societies of Paris and Florence, of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, Copenhagen, the Royal Academy of History of Madrid, the American Philosophical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, Etc., Etc., Etc. PHILADELPHIA DAVID McKAY, Publisher 1901
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.MAPS, SCHEMES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
5. 5.LECTURES ON ETHNOGRAPHY.
6. 6.LECTURE I. THE PHYSICAL ELEMENTS OF ETHNOGRAPHY. — Scheme of Principal Physical Elements.
7. 7.LECTURE II. THE PSYCHICAL ELEMENTS OF ETHNOGRAPHY. — I. The Associative Elements. — 1. The Social Instincts. — 2. Language. — Scheme of Languages. — 3. Religion. — 4. The Arts of Life. — II. The Dispersive Elements. — 1. The Migratory Instincts. — 2. The Combative Instinct.
8. 8.LECTURE III. THE BEGINNINGS AND SUBDIVISIONS OF RACES. — Scheme of Geologic Time during the Age of Man in the Eastern Hemisphere. — General Ethnographic Scheme.
9. 9.LECTURE IV. THE EURAFRICAN RACE; SOUTH MEDITERRANEAN BRANCH. — A. — The South Mediterranean Branch. — Scheme of the European Race: South Mediterranean Branch. — A. The South Mediterranean Branch. — I. The Hamitic Stock. — 1. The Libyan Group. — 2. The Egyptian Group. — 3. The East African Group. — II. The Semitic Stock. — 1. The Arabian Group. — 2. The Abyssinian Group — 3. The Chaldean Group. — Scheme of the Eurafrican Race.—North Mediterranean Branch.
10. 10.LECTURE V. THE EURAFRICAN RACE: NORTH MEDITERRANEAN BRANCH. — B. The North Mediterranean Branch. — 1. The Euskaric Stock. — 2. The Aryac Stock — Scheme of Aryac Migration. — 1. The Celtic Peoples. — 2. The Italic Peoples. — 3. The Illyric Peoples. — 4. The Hellenic Peoples. — 5. The Lettic Peoples. — 6. The Teutonic Peoples — 7. The Slavonic Peoples. — 8. The Indo-Eranic Peoples. — III. The Caucasic Stock.
11. 11.LECTURE VI. THE AUSTAFRICAN RACE. — Scheme of the Austafrican Race. — I. The Negrillos. — II. The Negroes. — 1. The Nilotic Group. — 2. The Sudanese Group. — 3. The Senegambian Group. — 4. The Guinean Group. — III. The Negroids. — 1. The Nubian Group — 2. The Bantu Group — Scheme of the Asian Race.
12. 12.LECTURE VII. THE ASIAN RACE. — I. The Sinitic Branch. — 1. The Chinese. — 2. The Thibetan Group. — 3. The Indo-Chinese Group. — II. The Sibiric Branch. — 1. The Tungusic Group , — 2. The Mongolic Group — 3. The Tataric Group. — 4. The Finnic Group — 5. The Arctic Group. — 6. The Japanese Group.
13. 13.LECTURE VIII. INSULAR AND LITTORAL PEOPLES. — Scheme of Insular and Littoral Peoples. — I. The Negritic Stock. — 1. The Negrito Group. — 2. The Papuan Group — 3. The Melanesian Group. — II. The Malayic Stock — 1. The Western or Malayan Group. — 2. The Eastern or Polynesian Group. — III. The Australic Stock. — 1. The Australian Group — 2. The Dravidian Group.
14. 14.LECTURE IX. THE AMERICAN RACE. — 1. The Arctic Group. — 2. The North Atlantic Group. — 3. The North Pacific Group. — 4. The Mexican Group. — 5. The Inter-Isthmian Group. — 6. The South Atlantic Group. — 7. The South Pacific Group.
15. 15.LECTURE X. PROBLEMS AND PREDICTIONS. — The Problem of Acclimation. — The Problem of Amalgamation — The Problem of Civilization. — The Destiny of Races.
16. 16.INDEX OF AUTHORS.
17. 17.INDEX OF SUBJECTS. — FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber’s Note:

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