Twins in African and diaspora cultures [[electronic resource] ] : double trouble, twice blessed / / edited by Philip M. Peek
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| Titolo: |
Twins in African and diaspora cultures [[electronic resource] ] : double trouble, twice blessed / / edited by Philip M. Peek
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| Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (377 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.875096 |
| Soggetto topico: | Twins - Social aspects - Africa |
| Twins - Africa - Religious aspects | |
| Twins in art | |
| African diaspora | |
| Altri autori: |
PeekPhilip M
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| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Twins in African and diaspora cultures |
| ISBN: | 0-253-00163-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819389503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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