Paul Radin

Paul Radin (1883–1959) was a widely-read American anthropologist of the early twentieth century. A student of Franz Boas at Columbia, the Łódź-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.

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