Roland Littlewood FRAI is a British

anthropologist An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms and ...

and

psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their sy ...

, and Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

. 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 The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is a long-established anthropological organisation, and Learned Society, with a global membership. Its remit includes all the component fields of anthropology, such as biolo ...

from 1994 to 1997. 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.

Published works (selection)

* with

Edmund Leach Sir Edmund Ronald Leach FRAI FBA (7 November 1910 – 6 January 1989) was a British social anthropologist and academic. He served as provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1966 to 1979. He was also president of the Royal Anthropologi ...

Meyer Fortes Meyer Fortes FBA FRAI (25 April 1906 – 27 January 1983) was a South African-born anthropologist, best known for his work among the Tallensi and Ashanti in Ghana. Originally trained in psychology, Fortes employed the notion of the "person ...

: ''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, .

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''Roland Littlewood In conversation with Rosalind Ramsay.''
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'', Band 23, 1999, S. 733–739 Academics of University College London British anthropologists British psychiatrists People educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Presidents of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland {{UK-psychiatrist-stub