Pathology and identity : the work of Mother Earth in Trinidad
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Pathology and identity : the work of Mother Earth in Trinidad
（Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology, 90）
Cambridge University Press, 1993
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The coming of the Earth People
- 2. A certain degree of instability
- 3. Madness, vice and Tabanka: popular knowledge of psychopathology in Trinidad
- 4. Mother Earth and the psychiatrists
- 5. Putting out the life
- 6. Your ancestor is you: African in a new world
- 7. Nature and the millennium
- 8. Incest: the naked earth
- 9. The beginning of the end: everyday life in the valley
- 10. Genesis of meanings, limits of mimesis
- Appendices
- Glossary
- Notes
- List of references
- Index.
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