![]() ![]() “Briefly stated, the underlying idea of conduct among most primitive tribes is self-discipline, self-control, and a resolute endeavor to observe a proper measure of proportion in all things. ![]() While hopping as a professor from college to college, he also wrote a slew of influential books, including The Racial Myth (1934) Primitive Religion (1937), which traced commonalities in all religions and The Trickster: A Study in Native American Mythology (1956). ![]() mythology in Paul Radins book The Trickster in 1955 (Hynes and Doty 2). In 1929, Radin published a grammar of the nearly extinct language of the Wappo people of the San Francisco Bay area. The archetype of the Trickster runs through myths from cultures around the world. as found among the North American Indians. His sketch of a Winnebago man, Crashing Thunder (1926), written as autobiography, was the first book of its kind and is still widely read. For example, in American Indian cultures, the trickster is often called coyote or raven. Radin believed that understanding a society’s culture required immersion in the life of that society, and he helped introduce the use of personal histories and personal psychology as anthropological tools. Born in Lodz to a father who was a doctor and Reform rabbi, Radin became one of Franz Boas’ anthropology students at Columbia University and did extensive fieldwork among Native Americans of California and the Great Lakes. A linguist, ethnologist, anthropologist, and folklorist, Paul Radin died at 75 on this date in 1959. ![]()
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