An edition of Twins in African and diaspora cultures
(2011)
Twins in African and diaspora cultures
double trouble, twice blessed
by Philip M. Peek
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African diaspora, Religious aspects, Twins, Twins in art, Social aspects, Superstition, Blacks, Social life and customsPlaces
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Table of Contents
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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