El Folklore de Oaxaca

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Author: Radin, Paul (1883-1959) from the library of Professor George M Foster Year: 1917 Publisher: Escuela Internacional de Arqueología y Etnología Americanas/The Hispanic Society of America Place: New York Description: iv+294 pages. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7") bound in 3/4 green cloth with marbled boards. Introduction by Aurelio M Espinosa. From the library of George M Foster . 1st edition. Paul Radin (1883-1959) is a widely read American cultural anthropologist and folklorist of the early twentieth century. Born the son of a rabbi in the cosmopolitan Polish city of Lodz, he became a student of Franz Boas at Columbia, where he counted Edward Sapir and Robert Lowie among his classmates. He engaged in years of productive fieldwork among the Winnebago (Hoc¹k) Indians, primarily from 1908-1912, culminating in 1923 with the publication of his magnum opus, The Winnebago Tribe. In 1929, as a result of his fieldwork, he was able to publish a grammar of the nearly extinct language of the Wappo people of the San Francisco Bay area. Late in his career he edited several anthologies of folk tales from different continents. His most enduring publication to date is The Trickster (1956), which includes essays by the pioneering scholar of Greek mythology, Karl Kerényi, and the prominent psychoanalyst C. G. Jung. Radin taught at a number of colleges and universities, never staying at any one more than a few years. At various times he held appointments at University of California, Berkeley; Mi

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