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The Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad

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Hardcover | 28 June 1993

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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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"...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

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Non-Fiction Psychology Medicine Other Branches of Medicine Clinical Psychology Religion & Beliefs Religion Other Non-Christian Religions Tribal Religions Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

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Acknowledgements
The coming of the Earth People
A certain degree of instability
Madness, vice and Tabanka: popular knowledge of psychopathology in Trinidad
Mother Earth and the psychiatrists
Putting out the life
Your ancestor is you: African in a new world
Nature and the millennium
Incest: the naked earth
The beginning of the end: everyday life in the valley
Genesis of meanings, limits of mimesis
Appendices
Glossary
Notes
List of references
Index
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Pathology and Identity

The Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad

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