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.
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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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The Earth People draw on West African traditions and assert the particular power of female creativity. Their leader is Mother Earth, whose faith emerged following a cerebral disease. This account of a new West Indian religion examines how social patterns may emerge from radical personal experiences.
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antinomian acts, millennial groups, shango cult, millennial moment, bush medicine, millennial movements, high science, oppositional ideology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mother Earth, Earth People, West Indies, West Indian, Hell Valley, United States, West African, Virgin Mary, Mango Rose, Beginning of the End, Mother Nature, Pinnacle Village, Spirit of the Son, Valley of Decision, Earth Mother, Shouter Baptism, Ann Lee, Father Divine, Haile Selassie, Spiritual Baptists, Christian God, Sabbatai Svi, Culture of the Body, Jehovah's Witnesses, New York New!
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Few people in the West Indian island of Trinidad have not heard of the Earth People. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
antinomian acts, millennial groups, shango cult, millennial moment, bush medicine, millennial movements, high science, oppositional ideology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mother Earth, Earth People, West Indies, West Indian, Hell Valley, United States, West African, Virgin Mary, Mango Rose, Beginning of the End, Mother Nature, Pinnacle Village, Spirit of the Son, Valley of Decision, Earth Mother, Shouter Baptism, Ann Lee, Father Divine, Haile Selassie, Spiritual Baptists, Christian God, Sabbatai Svi, Culture of the Body, Jehovah's Witnesses, New York New!
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- Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir on page 230, and Back Matter
- The Greeks and the Irrational (Sather Classical Lectures) by E. R. Dodds in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Structural Models in Anthropology (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Per Hage in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Pierre Bourdieu in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Production and Reproduction: A Comparative Study of the Domestic Domain (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Jack Goody in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Psychiatry and Religion: Context, Consensus and Controversies by Dinesh Bhugra on page 46, and page 196
- Human and Divine: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religious Experience by Gwen Griffith-Dickson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Nation Dance: Religion, Identity and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean by Patrick Taylor in Back Matter
- Rastafari and Other African-Caribbean Worldviews by Barry Chevannes in Front Matter
- The Anthropology of Religion: An Introduction by Fiona Bowie on page 68
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