Paul Radin

Paul Radin ( born April 2, 1883 in Łódź, Poland, † February 21, 1959 in New York City ) was an American anthropologist.

Family

Paul Radin was the third son of Rabbi Dr. Moshe Adolf Radin (* 1848 in Neustadt- Schirwindt, † 1909) and his wife Johanna Theodore Radin. His father had studied at the universities of Berlin, Königsberg and Greifswald.

The parents emigrated from Russia at the time with her five children ( three sons and two daughters ) in the year 1884 in the United States: Your arrival was Elmira (New York), from where they moved in 1890 to New York. In both cities, Adolf Moshe Radin worked as a rabbi. In New York, his daughters died of scarlet fever.

Paul Radin married in 1910 for the first time. In his second marriage he was married to Doris Woodward since 1930.

Life

Paul Radin attended the New York City College, where in 1896 began his friendship with Robert Lowie. Radin finished college in 1902 with a Bachelor. Then he studied zoology at Columbia University. During a European tour that took him to Munich in 1905 and 1906 to Berlin, Radin moved to anthropology. At the Berlin Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität he heard Charles of the stones, Eduard Seler and Paul Ehrenreich.

After his return to the U.S., Radin matriculated in 1907 at Columbia University. He studied anthropology with Franz Boas and was built in 1911 for Ph.D. doctorate. His fellow students were Edward Sapir, Clark Wissler and Frank Bacon.

From 1918 to 1920 worked with Alfred Kroeber and Radin Robert Lowie at the University of California, Berkeley. Then Paul Radin went to England at the University of Cambridge to WHR Rivers († 1922) and remained until 1925. During this time he learned the theories of Carl Gustav Jung know, particularly its views to the mythology.

In 1927 he was appointed to the Fisk University in Nashville (Tennessee), where his students collected life stories and religious awakening experiences of former slaves. In 1930 he was back in Berkeley. In the years 1941-1944 Radin taught at Black Mountain College, and from 1947 to 1952 at Kenyon College in Ohio. Since 1949, Paul Radin regularly traveled to Europe, he lectured in Sweden, and he participated in the Eranos conferences in Ascona ( Switzerland ) part of the Monte Verità. Karl Kerényi and C. G. Jung had founded in 1933 the conference form.

1952 Paul Radin moved to Lugano. Together with Karl Kerényi and C. G. Jung, he published in 1954 the picaresque cycle of Winnebago under the title The divine prankster. Radin taught at the CG Jung Institute in Zurich, and occasionally at the Universities of Oxford and Manchester. In 1957 he returned again back to the U.S. and was the Samuel Rubin professor at Brandeis University in Waltham (Massachusetts ).

Field research

  • In his activities as a field researcher Paul Radin traveled in the years 1908-1913 several times to the Winnebago, whose culture was for him a special area of ​​interest.
  • Since 1911, Radin explored on behalf of the Bureau of American Ethnology, the mythology and language of the Zapotec in Mexico.
  • In 1914 he moved to Canada, where he - together with Edward Sapir - initiated extensive field research among the Ojibwa Indians of the Great Lakes region.
  • 1925 - after his return from England - he did field research at the Ottawa for the University of Michigan.
  • In 1930, he worked in California at the root of the Patwin, who belong to the Penutian language family, as well as to the minorities of the Bay Area.

Publications

  • A Sketch of the Peyote Cult of the Winnebago. A Study in Borrowing. , 1914.
  • Literary Aspects Of North American Mythology. Government Printing, Ottawa, 1915.
  • The Winnebago Tribe. 1923 and University of Nebraska Press, 1990, ISBN 0-8032-5710-4.
  • Crashing Thunder. The Native American Autobiography Series. 1926 and University of Nebraska Press 1983, ISBN 0-8032-8910-3.
  • Primitive Man as a Philosopher. Foreword by John Dewey. Appleton, New York in 1927 and Dover 1957, ISBN 0-486-20392-1.
  • Social Anthropology. McGraw- Hill, New York, 1933.
  • The Method and Theory of Ethnology. Bergin & Garvey 1933 and 1987, ISBN 0-89789-118- X.
  • The Racial Myth. Whittlesey, New York, 1934.
  • Primitive religion. Its Nature and Origin. Dover, New York 1937, ISBN 0-486-20393- X.
  • The Culture of the Winnebago. As Described by Themselves. In 1949.
  • The World of the Primitive Man. Abelard - Schuman, New York, 1953.
  • The Trickster. A Study in American Indian Mythology. Comments by C. G. Young and Karl Kerényi. Bell, New York 1956.

Translations

  • The religious experience of primitive peoples. Rhine, Zurich 1951.
  • God and Man in the primitive world. ( The World of Primitive Man translated by Margherita von Wyss. ) Revised by the author, and advanced German EA. Rhein- Verlag, Zurich, 1953.
  • The divine prankster. An Indian myth cycle. Picaresque cycle translated by Ilse Kramer. With Karl Kerényi and C. G. Jung. Rhein- Verlag, Zurich 1954.
  • The association of fire. Origin myths of the Winnebago Indians. Collected by Paul Radin. Translated by Michael Kuper (ed.) and Roger Uchtmann. Zerling, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-88468-044-7.

Publisher

  • From 1948 to 1959: Co-editor of the publications of Anthropology and Linguistics at Indiana University.
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