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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Sources/Further Reading
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
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.
External links
- Paul Radin's Winnebago Notebooks at the American Philosophical Library
- Paul Radin Papers Special Collection at Marquette University Libraries
