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Title: The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races
An Interpretation

Author: Sanger Brown, II

Contributor: James H. Leuba

Release Date: December 24, 2009 [EBook #30750]

Language: English

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THE SEX WORSHIP AND
SYMBOLISM OF PRIMITIVE
RACES

AN INTERPRETATION

BY
SANGER BROWN II., M. D.

_Assistant Physician, Bloomingdale Hospital_

_With an Introduction by James H. Leuba_

BOSTON: RICHARD G. BADGER
TORONTO: THE COPP CLARK CO., LIMITED

_Copyright 1916, by Richard G. Badger_
_All rights reserved_

_The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A._

DEDICATED TO MY WIFE
HELEN WILLISTON BROWN

PREFACE

The greater part of the first three chapters of this book appeared in
the _Journal of Abnormal Psychology_ in the December-January number of
1915-16 and the February-March number of 1916. This material is
reprinted here by the kind permission of the Editor of that Journal.
This part of the subject is chiefly historical and the data here given
is accessible as indicated by the references throughout the text,
although many of these books are difficult to secure or are out of
print. For this historical material I am particularly indebted to the
writings of Hargrave Jennings, Richard Payne Knight and Doctor Thomas
Inman. Most of the reference matter coming under the general heading of
Nature Worship was obtained from comparatively recent sources, such as
the publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, of the Smithsonian
Institute, and certain publications of the American Museum of Natural
History. Frazer's _Golden Bough_ and other writings of J. G. Frazer on
Anthropology furnished much valuable information. The writings of
special investigators, among others those of Spencer