Pathology and Identity : The Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad

Name: Pathology and Identity
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521026154
Price: 8750 KES
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ISBN: 9780521026154

by Roland Littlewood

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

ISBN-10 0521026156

ISBN-13 9780521026154

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 27th, 2006

Print length 352 Pages

Weight 526 grams

Dimensions 15.40 x 22.90 x 2.60 cms

Product Classification: Caribbean islands Trinidad and Tobago Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Social and cultural anthropology

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The Earth People draw on West African traditions and assert the particular power of female creativity. Their leader is Mother Earth, whose faith emerged following a cerebral disease. This 1993 account of a new West Indian religion examines how social patterns may emerge from radical personal experiences.

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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