Roland Littlewood Explained

Roland Littlewood FRAI is a British anthropologist and psychiatrist, and Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at University College London.^[1] He is the co-author (with Maurice Lipsedge) of the book Aliens and Alienists, now in its third edition. During his career, he was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute from 1994 to 1997.^[2]

Littlewood has interests in the (medical and social) anthropology of the Caribbean, Albania and Britain. He has written extensively about the diagnosis of the black immigrant population in the UK.^[3]

Published works (selection)

• with Edmund Leach, Meyer Fortes: Pathology and identity. The Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1993, (also reprinted in 2006).
• The Butterfly and the serpent. Essays in psychiatry, race and religion. Free Association Books, London 1998, .
• Ed.: Cultural psychiatry & medical anthropology. An introduction and reader. Athlone Press, London 2000, .
• Religion, agency, restitution. The Wilde lectures in natural religion 1999. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001, .
• Pathologies of the West. An anthropology of mental illness in Europe and America. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 2002, .
• with Maurice Lipsedge: Aliens and alienists. Ethnic minorities and psychiatry. Penguin, Harmondsworth 1982. (3rd Edition. Routledge, Hove 2004,).
• On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, California 2007, .

External links

• Roland Littlewood In conversation with Rosalind Ramsay., in Psychiatric Bulletin, Band 23, 1999, S. 733–739

Notes and References

1. Web site: Roland Littlewood (UCL). University College London. 5 March 2017.
2. Web site: Council. Royal Anthropological Institute. 5 March 2017.
3. Littlewood. Roland. Lipsedge. Maurice. Migration, Ethnicity and Diagnosis. Psychiatria Clinica. 1978. 11. 1. 15–22. 10.1159/000283721. 704950. 5 March 2017.