LEADER 03353nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910456640203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-253-00163-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000000039897 035 $a(OCoLC)747432797 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10481723 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000526290 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11348144 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000526290 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10519926 035 $a(PQKB)11104996 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC731392 035 $a(OCoLC)742333361 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17113 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL731392 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10481723 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000039897 100 $a20110419d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aTwins in African and diaspora cultures$b[electronic resource] $edouble trouble, twice blessed /$fedited by Philip M. Peek 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (377 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-253-35624-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $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 (e?re i?beji?) among the Yoruba / Babatunde Lawal -- "Son dos los jimagu?as" ("the twins are two") : worship of the sacred twins in Lucumi? 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 ere?s in Brazilian candomble? / Stefania Capone -- The ambiguous ordinariness of Yoruba twins / Elisha P. Renne -- Twins, albinos, and vanishing prisoners : a Mozambican theory of political power / Paulo Granjo. 606 $aTwins$xSocial aspects$zAfrica 606 $aTwins$zAfrica$xReligious aspects 606 $aTwins in art 606 $aAfrican diaspora 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTwins$xSocial aspects 615 0$aTwins$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aTwins in art. 615 0$aAfrican diaspora. 676 $a306.875096 701 $aPeek$b Philip M$0898160 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456640203321 996 $aTwins in African and diaspora cultures$92006783 997 $aUNINA