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PATHOLOGY AND IDENTITY
THE WORK OF MOTHER EARTH IN TRINIDAD |
| By: |
Roland Littlewood, Meyer Fortes, Edmund Leach |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521026156 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521026154 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
27 March, 2006 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology No. 90 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
A 1993 anthropological study of the Earth People, a new Caribbean religion led by Mother Earth. |
| Synopsis: |
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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12 b/w illus. 1 colour illus. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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