03353nam 2200601 a 450 991045664020332120200520144314.00-253-00163-3(CKB)2550000000039897(OCoLC)747432797(CaPaEBR)ebrary10481723(SSID)ssj0000526290(PQKBManifestationID)11348144(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000526290(PQKBWorkID)10519926(PQKB)11104996(MiAaPQ)EBC731392(OCoLC)742333361(MdBmJHUP)muse17113(Au-PeEL)EBL731392(CaPaEBR)ebr10481723(EXLCZ)99255000000003989720110419d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrTwins in African and diaspora cultures[electronic resource] double trouble, twice blessed /edited by Philip M. PeekBloomington Indiana University Press20111 online resource (377 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-253-35624-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.TwinsSocial aspectsAfricaTwinsAfricaReligious aspectsTwins in artAfrican diasporaElectronic books.TwinsSocial aspectsTwinsReligious aspects.Twins in art.African diaspora.306.875096Peek Philip M898160MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456640203321Twins in African and diaspora cultures2006783UNINA