The Sources and Authenticity of the History of the Ancient Mexicans

150 pages with 17 plates. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7 1/2") University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Volume 17, number 1. First edition. Paul Radin (April 2, 1883-February 21, 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 Indians, primarily from 1908-1912, culminating in 1923 with the publication of his magnum opus, The Winnebago Tribee. 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 Kerenyi, 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; Mills College, Fisk University, Black Mountain College, Kenyon College, and the University of Chicago. He concluded his career at Brandeis, where he was chairman of the Department of Anthropology. Condition: Corners bumped, edge wear else a very good copy.