Radin, Paul (1883–1959)

Polish-born US cultural anthropologist and linguist. He did extensive fieldwork among the Chippewa and Winnebago Indians and in Mexico. His Primitive Man as Philosopher appeared in 1927.

Born in Łódź, his father, a rabbi, took the family to Elmira, New York, in 1884. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1902, studied under Franz Boas at Columbia, and received a PhD in 1911. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Fiske College, and Black Mountain College, North Carolina, and from 1957 until his death, he headed the anthropology department at Brandeis University.