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. 1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Franz Boas Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 22, 1942) was one of the pioneers of modern anthropology and is often called the Father of American Anthropology. Like many such pioneers, he trained in other disciplines; he received his doctorate in physics, and did post-doctoral work in geography. ... Łódź (pronunciation: ), the second-largest city (population 776,297 in 2004) of Poland, lies in the centre of the country. ... Edward Sapir. ... Robert Henry Lowie (1883 – 1957) was an Austrian-born American anthropologist. ... Fieldwork refers to scientific activity conducted in the field, outside the laboratory, of subject matter in an as-found state, by anthropologists, geologists, botanists, archaeologists or others who study the natural or human world. ... The Ho-Chunk or Winnebago (as they are commonly called) are a tribe of Native Americans, native to what are now Wisconsin and Illinois. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Greek mythology comprises the collected legends of Greek gods and goddesses and ancient heroes and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. ... One of the founders of modern studies in Greek mythology, Karl (Carl, Károly) Kerényi (January 19, 1897 - April 14, 1973) was born in Hungary but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1943. ... Carl Gustav Jung Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875 – June 6, 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of the neopsychoanalytic school of psychology. ...

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

John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thought has been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. ...

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