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020 _z9780253356246 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 _z9780253223074 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 _z9780253001634 (e-book)
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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,
_c2011.
300 _avi, 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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2011.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aTwins
_xSocial aspects
_zAfrica.
650 0 _aTwins
_zAfrica
_xReligious aspects.
650 0 _aTwins in art.
650 0 _aAfrican diaspora.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aPeek, Philip M.
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10481723
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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