Roland Littlewood
Roland Martin Littlewood (* 1947 ) is a British anthropologist and psychiatrist and professor of anthropology and psychiatry at University College London .
He is the co-author (with Maurice Lipsedge) of Aliens and Alienists , now in its third edition. He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute from 1994 to 1997 .
Fonts (selection)
- with Edmund Leach , Meyer Fortes : Pathology and identity. The Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1993, ISBN 0-521-02615-6 (also reprint 2006).
- The Butterfly and the serpent. Essays in psychiatry, race and religion. Free Association Books, London 1998, ISBN 1-85343-399-3 .
- Ed .: Cultural psychiatry & medical anthropology. An introduction and reader. Athlone Press, London 2000, ISBN 0-485-11527-1 .
- Religion, agency, restitution. The Wilde lectures in natural religion 1999. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001, ISBN 0-19-924197-X .
- Pathologies of the West. An anthropology of mental illness in Europe and America. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY 2002, ISBN 0-8014-3934-5 .
- with Maurice Lipsedge: Aliens and alienists. Ethnic minorities and psychiatry. Penguin, Harmondsworth 1982. (3rd edition. Routledge, Hove 2004, ISBN 0-415-15724-2 ).
- On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, California 2007, ISBN 978-1-59874-275-6 .
Web links
- Roland Littlewood In conversation with Rosalind Ramsay. In: Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 23, 1999, pp. 733-739 (English).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Littlewood, Roland |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Littlewood, Roland Martin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British anthropologist and psychiatrist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |