Paul Radin

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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. Adolf-Moshe Radin (* 1848 in Neustadt-Schirwindt ; † 1909) and his wife Johanna Theodor Radin. His father had studied at the universities of Berlin , Königsberg and Greifswald .

The parents emigrated from what was then Russia with their five children (three sons and two daughters) to the USA in 1884: Their place of arrival was Elmira (New York) , from there they moved to New York in 1890 . Adolf-Moshe Radin worked as a rabbi in both cities. In New York, his daughters died of scarlet fever .

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

Life

Paul Radin attended New York City College , where his friendship with Robert Lowie began in 1896 . Radin graduated from college in 1902 with a bachelor's degree . He then studied zoology at Columbia University . During a trip to Europe, which took him to Munich in 1905 and to Berlin in 1906, Radin switched to anthropology. At the Berlin Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität he heard Karl von den Steinen , Eduard Seler and Paul Ehrenreich .

After returning to the USA, Radin enrolled at Columbia University in 1907 . He studied anthropology with Franz Boas and was awarded a Ph.D. PhD. His fellow students were Edward Sapir , Clark Wissler and Frank Speck.

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

In 1927 he was called to 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. Radin taught at Black Mountain College from 1941 to 1944 and at Kenyon College in Ohio from 1947 to 1952. Since 1949 Paul Radin traveled regularly to Europe, he gave lectures in Sweden, and he took part in the Eranos conferences in Ascona (Switzerland) on Monte Verità . Karl Kerényi and CG Jung founded the conference format in 1933.

In 1952 Paul Radin moved to Lugano . Together with Karl Kerényi and CG Jung, he published the Winnebago's rogue cycle in 1954 under the title The Divine Rascal . Radin taught at the CG Jung Institute in Zurich, and occasionally at the universities in Oxford and Manchester. In 1957 he returned to the USA and became a Samuel Rubin Professor at Brandeis University in Waltham (Massachusetts).

Field research

  • In his activities as a field researcher , Paul Radin traveled several times between 1908 and 1913 to the Winnebago , whose culture became a special area of ​​interest for him.
  • Since 1911, Radin researched the mythology and language of the Zapotecs in Mexico on behalf of the Bureau of American Ethnology .
  • In 1914 he moved to Canada, where he - together with Edward Sapir - conducted extensive field research among the Ojibwa Indians in the Great Lakes region .
  • In 1925 - after his return from England - he conducted field research with the Ottawa for the University of Michigan .
  • In 1930 he worked in California with the Patwin tribe, who belong to the Penuti language family, and with 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 u. University of Nebraska Press 1983, ISBN 0-8032-8910-3 .
  • Primitive Man as Philosopher . Foreword by John Dewey . Appleton, New York and London 1927 ( digitized version ) a. Dover 1957, ISBN 0-486-20392-1 .
  • Social Anthropology . McGraw-Hill, New York 1933.
  • The Method and Theory of Ethnology . 1933 u. Bergin & Garvey 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 . 1949.
  • The World of the Primitive Man . Abelard-Schuman, New York 1953.
  • The trickster . A Study in American Indian Mythology . Comments by CG Jung and Karl Kerényi . Bell, New York 1956.

Translations

  • The religious experience of primitive peoples. Rhein, Zurich 1951.
  • God and man in the primitive world. ( The World of Primitive Man translated by Margherita von Wyss.) German EA revised and expanded by the author. Rhein-Verlag, Zurich 1953.
  • The divine rogue. A cycle of Indian myths . Schelmen cycle translated by Ilse Krämer . With Karl Kerényi a. CG Jung. Rhein-Verlag, Zurich 1954.
  • The union of fire. Myths of origin of the Winnebago Indians. Collected by Paul Radin. Translated by Michael Kuper (Ed.) U. Roger Uchtmann. Zerling, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-88468-044-7 .

editor

literature

  • Stanley Diamond (Ed.): Culture in History. Essays in Honor of Paul Radin . Octagon 1960, ISBN 0-374-92155-5 .
  • Stanley Diamond: Paul Radin . In: Sydel Silverman (Ed.) Totems and Teachers. Key Figures in the History of Anthropology . Alta Mira, 2003, ISBN 0-7591-0460-3 , pp. 51-73.
  • Mircea Eliade : The focus. Fragments of a diary. Europa Verlag, Vienna / Munich / Zurich 1977, ISBN 3-203-50631-9 .
  • Klaus Peter Koepping: Paul Radin . In: Christian F. Feest , Karl-Heinz Kohl (Hrsg.): Hauptwerke der Ethnologie (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 380). Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-38001-3 , pp. 376-384.
  • Christer Lindberg: Paul Radin. The Anthropological Trickster . In: European Review of Native American Studies. Vol. 14, 2000, No. 1, pp. 1-9.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shtetlinks: Appendix 3. The current name of the city is Kudirkos Naumiestis
  2. ↑ Jewishencyclopedia: (sic) Lemma Adolph M. Radin.
  3. ↑ Radin was impressed that Lowie was able to quote long passages from Klopstock's Messiah during the conversation. See Paul Radin: Robert H. Lowie, 1883-1957. In: American Anthropologist. Volume 60, No. 2, pp. 358-375. (on-line)
personal data
SURNAME Radin, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Łódź
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1959
Place of death New York City