Pathology and Identity

The Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad

Bibliographic Data

ID19897204
AuthorsRoland Littlewood (University College London, corresponding author)
Year1993
Publication date1993-04-29
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byPathology and Identity: The Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad, D Glazier, 1994
VenuePathology and Identity (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511521126
OpenAlexW4236054440
Open LibraryOL1715867M
ISBN9780511521126
LanguageEN
Citations received68

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

Aesthetics · Creativity · Epistemology · Naturalism · Personal identity · Self-concept · Social science · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Case studies · Cults · Earth People (Cult) · Genius and mental illness · Mental Health · Mentally ill · Mentally ill, religious life · Mother Earth (Religious leader) · religious · Religious life · Religious Psychology · Trinidad and tobago

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