tailieunhanh - LIBRARY OF ABORIGINAL AMERICAN LITERATURE. No. 1

The belief that the only solid foundation for the accurate study of American ethnology and linguistics must be in the productions of the native mind in their original form has led me to the venturesome undertaking of which this is the first issue. The object of the proposed series of publications is to preserve permanently a number of rude specimens of literature composed by the members of various American tribes, and exhibiting their habits of thought, modes of expressions, intellectual range and æsthetic faculties. Whether the literary and historical value of these monuments is little or great, they merit the. | LIBRARY OF Aboriginal American Literature. No. 1. EDITED BY D. g. BRINTON i BRINTON S LIBRARY OF ABORIGINAL AMERICAN literature. NUMBER 1. THE MAYA Chronicles. EDITED BY DANIEL G. BRINTON AMS PRESS NEW YORK Reprinted from the edition of 1882 Philadelphia First AMS EDITION published 1969 Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 70-83457 AMS PRESS INC. New York . 10003 iii TO THE MEMORY OF CARL HERMANN BERENDT . WHOSE LONG AND EARNEST DEVOTION TO THE ETHNOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS OF AMERICA HAS MADE THIS WORK POSSIBLE AND WHOSE UNTIMELY DEATH HAS LOST TO AMERICAN SCHOLARS RESULTS OF FAR GREATER IMPORTANCE THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED. vi v PREFACE. The belief that the only solid foundation for the accurate study of American ethnology and linguistics must be in the productions of the native mind in their original form has led me to the venturesome undertaking of which this is the first issue. The object of the proposed series of publications is to preserve permanently a number of rude specimens of literature composed by the members of various American tribes and exhibiting their habits of thought modes of expressions intellectual range and esthetic faculties. Whether the literary and historical value of these monuments is little or great they merit the careful attention of all who would weigh and measure the aboriginal mind and estimate its capacities correctly. The neglect of this field of study is largely owing to a deficiency of material for its pursuit. Genuine specimens of native literature are rare and almost or quite inaccessible. They remain in manuscript in the hands of a few collectors or if printed they are in forms not convenient to obtain vi as in the ponderous transactions of learned societies or in privately printed works. My purpose is to gather together from these sources a dozen volumes of moderate size and reasonable price and thus to put the material within the reach of American and European scholars. Now

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