double trouble, twice blessed Peek, Philip M. text bibliography Electronic books. inu Bloomington Indiana University Press c2011 2011 monographic eng

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1 online resource (vi, 366 p.) : ill., map. Introduction : beginning to rethink twins / Philip M. Peek -- Twins and double beings among the Bamana and Maninka of Mali / Pascal James Imperato and Gavin H. Imperato -- Twins and intertwinement : reflections on ambiguity and ambivalence in northwestern Namibia / Steven Van Wolputte -- Sustaining the oneness in their twoness : poetics of twin figures (ère ìbejì) among the Yoruba / Babatunde Lawal -- "Son dos los jimagüas" ("the twins are two") : worship of the sacred twins in Lucumí religious culture / Ysamur Flores-Pena -- Twins, couples, and doubles and the negotiation of spirit-human identities among the Win / Susan Cooksey -- Double portraits : images of twinness in West African studio photography / C. Angelo Micheli -- Forever liminal : twins among the Kapsiki/Higi of north Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria / Walter E.A. Van Beek -- Snake, bush, and metaphor : twinship among Ubangians / Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers -- Fiction and forbidden sexual fantasy in the culture of Temne twins / Frederick John Lamp -- Embodied dilemma : Tabwa twinship in thought and performance / Allen F. Roberts -- Children of the moon : twins in Luba art and ontology / Mary Nooter Roberts -- Two equals three : twins and the trickster in Haitian vodou / Marilyn Houlberg -- Divine children : the ibejis and the erês in Brazilian candomblé / Stefania Capone -- The ambiguous ordinariness of Yoruba twins / Elisha P. Renne -- Twins, albinos, and vanishing prisoners : a Mozambican theory of political power / Paulo Granjo. edited by Philip M. Peek. Includes bibliographical references and index. f------ Twins Social aspects Africa Twins Africa Religious aspects Twins in art African diaspora FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Siblings GN236.5 .T85 2011eb 306.875096 Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011 (DLC) 2011017162 (OCoLC)641506653 9780253001634 (electronic bk.) 0253001633 (electronic bk.) http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=381999 http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=381999 N$T 110822 20200709055409.0 ocn747432797