Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Classification of Data. I. _Legendary_: of northern tribes; of Peruvians, Mexicans and Mayas; limited range. II. _Monumental_: pueblos of New Mexico; stone and brick structures of Mexico, Central America and Peru; ruins of Tiahuanaco; artificial shell heaps; the _sambaquis_ of...
The processes, psychical and logical, which lie at the basis and modify the forms of articulate speech, have yet to be defined and classified in a manner to secure the general a...
7. PART III.The intellectual development of a nation attains its fullest expression in language, oral or written. This “divine art” as Plato calls it, claims therefore from the student of m...
6. PART II.Fashions in the study of mythology come and go with something like the rapidity of change in costume feminine, subject to the autocracy of a Parisian man-modiste. Myths have bee...
5. PART I.Ever since America was discovered, the question about it which has excited the most general interest has been, Whence came its inhabitants? The inquiry, Who are the American Ind...
4. PART IV.Indian geographic names; language a guide to ethnology; reveals the growth of arts and the psychologic processes of a people; illustration from the Lenâpé tongue; structure of l...
2. PART II.The Quiches of Guatemala, and their relationship; sources of information. Their Sacred Book, the _Popol Vuh_; its opening words; The name Hun-Ahpu-Vuch, the God of Light; Hun-Ah...
3. PART III.Material for the study; were the native hieroglyphs phonetic? Character and arrangement of phonetic symbols; the failure of Landa’s alphabet; phonetic signs in Maya MSS.; hierog...
1. PART I.Classification of Data. I. _Legendary_: of northern tribes; of Peruvians, Mexicans and Mayas; limited range. II. _Monumental_: pueblos of New Mexico; stone and brick structures...