Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- A note on idiom
- 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: Africa 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 meaning, limits of mimesis
- APPENDICES
- Glossary
- Notes
- List of references
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- A note on idiom
- 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: Africa 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 meaning, limits of mimesis
- APPENDICES
- Glossary
- Notes
- List of references
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
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- Pathology and IdentityThe Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad, pp. 323 - 326Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993