Twins in African and diaspora cultures : double trouble, twice blessed /

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In Africa, where the birthrate of twins is among the highest in the world, twins can be seen as a burden to their families and a threat to the social order, or they can be seen as a gift from God and beings with unique abilities who bring about social harmony. Philip M. Peek and the contributors to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Peek, Philip M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2011.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Twins > Social aspects > Africa.
Twins > Africa > Religious aspects.
Twins in art.
African diaspora.
Africains > Pays étrangers.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Siblings.
Twins > Religious aspects.
Africa.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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