Pathology and Identity: The Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad

Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology #90

by Roland Littlewood

The Earth People of Trinidad draw on Yoruba sources to assert the particular power of female creativity. This first new Caribbean religion since Rastafari is led by a woman, Mother Earth, whose ideas emerged from her experience of a cerebral disease. The author, Roland Littlewood, who is both a psychiatrist and a social anthropologist, offers a nonreductionist view on the relationship between pathology and creativity, between the natural and the human sciences.

352 pages, Paperback

First published May 28, 1993