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001 2011017162
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008 110419s2011 inuab b 001 0 eng c
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050 00 $aGN236.5$b.T85 2011
082 00 $a306.875096$223
245 00 $aTwins in African and diaspora cultures :$bdouble trouble, twice blessed /$cedited by Philip M. Peek.
260 $aBloomington :$bIndiana University Press,$cc2011.
300 $avi, 366 p. :$bill., map ;$c23 cm.
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.
650 0 $aTwins$xSocial aspects$zAfrica.
650 0 $aTwins$zAfrica$xReligious aspects.
650 0 $aTwins in art.
650 0 $aAfrican diaspora.
700 1 $aPeek, Philip M.