{"product_id":"pathology-and-identity-the-work-of-mother-earth-in-trinidad-hardback-9780521384278","title":"Pathology and Identity; The Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad (Hardback) 9780521384278","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePathology and Identity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA 1993 anthropological study of the Earth People, a new Caribbean religion led by Mother Earth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRoland Littlewood (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521384278, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 April 1993\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages, 12 b\/w illus.  1 colour illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.69 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e 1. The coming of the Earth People\u003cbr\u003e 2. A certain degree of instability\u003cbr\u003e 3. Madness, vice and Tabanka: popular knowledge of psychopathology in Trinidad\u003cbr\u003e 4. Mother Earth and the psychiatrists\u003cbr\u003e 5. Putting out the life\u003cbr\u003e 6. Your ancestor is you: African in a new world\u003cbr\u003e 7. Nature and the millennium\u003cbr\u003e 8. Incest: the naked earth\u003cbr\u003e 9. The beginning of the end: everyday life in the valley\u003cbr\u003e 10. Genesis of meanings, limits of mimesis\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e List of references\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20anthropology,%20ethnography%20%5BJHMC%5D%22\"\u003eJHMC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005785854232,"sku":"9780521384278","price":103.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521384278i_2c95e67c-faf0-4648-9677-a57f895df8e0.jpg?v=1691376145","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/pathology-and-identity-the-work-of-mother-earth-in-trinidad-hardback-9780521384278","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}