Roger Goodland
Roger Goodland (June 1880 – December 1944) was a British author and bibliographer best known for his 1931 annotated bibliography of literature concerning sexual rites, customs and their religious and anthropological aspects.
Life
[edit]Roger Goodland was born in Taunton, Somerset in June 1880.[1] His father was Charles Goodland (1845–1924) from Taunton, his mother Kate (1845–1921) was born in Montréal, Canada.[2] It is known that Roger Goodland lived in Canada for an extended period of time and served in the Somerset Light Infantry during World War I.[2]
After his return to England, he became a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in 1925.[3]
Goodland died in December 1944 and is buried at St. James Cemetery, Somerset, England.[2][4]
A Bibliography of Sex Rites and Customs
[edit]Goodland's principal work was A Bibliography of Sex Rites and Customs: An Annotated Record of Books, Articles and Illustrations in All Languages, published in London by George Routledge & Sons in 1931.[5][6] The bibliography comprises 752 pages and contains and index of approximately 9,000 works concerned with sexual rituals and customs. The entries are arranged alphabetically by author and are supplemented by a substantial subject index. Goodland also provided brief indications of the subjects covered by individual works and page references to the relevant topics.[7] The bibliography covered subjects including phallicism and religious aspects of sex.[5]
Reception
[edit]The book received contemporary attention in several scholarly journals. The contemporary review in Nature described it as a "monumental work" in which "a high standard of accuracy is maintained". The reviewer assumed that Goodland had spent between fifteen and twenty years compiling the bibliography.[7]
It was reviewed by E. W. Gifford in the 1932 volume of American Anthropologist.[8] It was also reviewed in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1932[9] and in the Journal of American Folklore in 1933.[10]
Reprints of the book were published by AMS Press in 1974 and by Longwood Press in 1977.[6]
Bibliography
[edit]- Goodland, Roger. A Bibliography of Sex Rites and Customs: An Annotated Record of Books, Articles and Illustrations in All Languages. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1931. 752 pp.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Index entry – Birth date". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
- 1 2 3 "LCol Herbert Tom Goodland DSO in the Great War". Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group. 2026-05-03. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ "Report of the Council for the Session July, 1944, to June, 1945". The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 75 (1/2): 103–6. 1945. Retrieved 2026-08-18.
- ↑ "Index entry – Death date". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
- 1 2 "A bibliography of sex rites and customs". Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
- 1 2 "A bibliography of sex rites and customs". Open Library. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- 1 2 "A Bibliography of Sex Rites and Customs: An Annotated Record of Books, Articles and Illustrations in all Languages". Nature. 128: 892. 28 November 1931. doi:10.1038/128892d0. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ E. W. Gifford (1932). "A Bibliography of Sex Rites and Customs by Roger Goodland". American Anthropologist. 34 (1): 136. doi:10.1525/aa.1932.34.1.02a00120. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ "Bibliography of Sex Rites and Customs. By Roger Goodland". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 64 (3): 700–701. 1932. Retrieved 28 September 2026.
- ↑ "A Bibliography of Sex Rites and Customs by Roger Goodland". Journal of American Folklore. 46 (179): 96–97. 1933. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
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