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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      11 March 2010
      29 April 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511521126
      9780521384278
      9780521026154
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521126
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.69kg, 352 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.536kg, 352 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Medicine, Anthropology, Psychiatry
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (90)
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    Subjects:
    Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Medicine, Anthropology, Psychiatry
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (90)
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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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