Pathology and Identity

The Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad

By:

Roland Littlewood

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

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The first new religion in the Caribbean since Rastafari, the Earth People draw on West African sources, assert a renascent African identity, and celebrate female creativity. They argue that Black people are the guardians of a natural environment, which is constantly under threat from European science. In this 1993 book, Dr Littlewood, who is both a psychiatrist and a social anthropologist, criticizes received ideas about pathology and creativity. The founder's ideas emerged in her experience of cerebral disease, and Dr Littlewood shows how the Earth People reinterpret radical personal experiences to build a community. While naturalistic and personalistic interpretations of human life are both valid and necessary, neither can be reduced to the other.

Release date Australia

April 27th, 2006

Author

Roland Littlewood

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

1 Plates, color; 12 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

352

Series

Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Dimensions

151x228x19

ISBN-13

9780521026154

Product ID

1972331

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