Pathology and Identity by Roland Littlewood
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.
"..both original and truly significant. It represents a major contribution to the study of millenarian movements, to African-Caribbean Studies and, one would hope, to the writing of ethnography...Littlewood's text is neither book-bound nor prosaic. It is refreshingly erudite and beautifully written." Times Literary Supplement
Littlewood, Roland: - Roland Littlewood is a clinical psychiatrist and Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at University College London. He is the joint director of the college's Centre for Medical Anthropology and a past President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. His books include Aliens and Alienists; Intercultural Therapy; The Butterfly and the Serpent; Readings in Cultural Psychiatry; Religion, Agency, Restitution; and Pathology and Identity, which was awarded the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medicine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521384278 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521384273 |
| Title | Pathology and Identity |
| Author | Roland Littlewood |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Social And Cultural Anthropology |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1993-04-29 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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