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Pathology and identity : the work of Mother Earth in Trinidad / Roland Littlewood

Author
Littlewood, Roland
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Pathology & Identity
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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1 online resource (xxii, 322 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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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.
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9780511521126 (ebook)
9780521384278 (hardback)
9780521026154 (paperback)
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