primitive man

trickster

Winnebego Indian

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

anthropologist

innovator in the field of

Native American studies

scientist

university teacher

anthropology

anthropology of the body

For Radin, primitive man was a man of reason and rationality (see for instance his famous critique of Lucien Levy-Bruhl's Les fonctions mentales dans les societes inferieures).

is a mirror of the mind wherein is depicted man's struggle with himself and with a world into which he has been thrust without his volition or consent.

Is this a speculum mentis wherein is depicted man's struggle with himself and with a world into which he had been thrust without his volition and consent' Is this the answer, or the adumbration of an answer, to questions forced upon him, consciously or unconsciously, since his appearance on earth'' (Radin 1956: xxiv).

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