TY  - BOOK
AU  - Littlewood,Roland
TI  - Pathology and identity: the work of Mother Earth in Trinidad 
T2  - Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology
SN  - 9780511521126 (ebook)
AV  - BL2566.T7 L58 1992
U1  - 299/.67 20
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Mother Earth (Religious leader)
KW  - Earth People (Cult)
KW  - Mentally ill
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Trinidad and Tobago
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Genius and mental illness
KW  - Psychology, Religious
KW  - Cults
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2016)
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521126
ER  -