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245 0 0 _aTwins in African and diaspora cultures
_h[electronic resource] :
_bdouble trouble, twice blessed /
_cedited by Philip M. Peek.
260 _aBloomington :
_bIndiana University Press,
_cc2011.
300 _a1 online resource (vi, 366 p.) :
_bill., map.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aTwins
_xSocial aspects
_zAfrica.
650 0 _aTwins
_zAfrica
_xReligious aspects.
650 0 _aTwins in art.
650 0 _aAfrican diaspora.
650 7 _aFAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Siblings
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655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aPeek, Philip M.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tTwins in African and diaspora cultures.
_dBloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011
_z9780253356246
_w(DLC) 2011017162
_w(OCoLC)641506653
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