Paul Radin

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Paul Radin
Paul Radin
Paul Radin
Born April 2, 1883
Died February 21, 1959
Fields anthropology
Alma mater Columbia University
Doctoral advisor Franz Boas

Paul Radin (April 2, 1883 – February 21, 1959) was a widely-read American anthropologist of the early twentieth century. A student of Franz Boas at Columbia, the Lodz-born Radin counted Edward Sapir and Robert Lowie among his classmates. He began years of productive fieldwork among the Winnebago Indians (now properly the Ho-Chunk Nation) in 1908. His books are several, but his most enduring publication to date is The Trickster (1956), which includes essays by pioneering Greek-myth scholar Karl Kerényi and psychoanalyst C.G. Jung.

Radin taught at a number of colleges and universities, including Kenyon College in 1947, 1949-52.

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[edit] Writings by Radin

  • Radin, Paul 1927 Primitive Man As Philosopher (with an introduction by Dewey)
  • Radin, Paul 1956 The Trickster: A Study in Native American Mythology

[edit] Writings on Radin

  • Diamond, Stanley (ed.) 1960 Culture in History: Essays in Honor of Paul Radin. New York: Columbia UP
  • Lindberg, Christer 2000 "Paul Radin: The Anthropological Trickster," in European Review of Native American Studies 14(1)
  • Lurie, N.O. 1988 "Relations Between Indians and Anthropologists," in Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 4. Washington, DC.

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