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Twins in African and diaspora cultures : double trouble, twice blessed

[NT 42944] Record Type:	[NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
[NT 47348] Title Information:	double trouble, twice blessed
[NT 47354] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	PeekPhilip M,
[NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	Project Muse
[NT 47351] Place of Publication:	Bloomington
[NT 47263] Published:	Indiana University Press;
[NT 47352] Year of Publication:	c2011
[NT 47264] Description:	1 online resource (vi, 366 p.)ill., map. :
[NT 47266] Subject:	African diaspora -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Twins in art -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Twins - Religious aspects - Africa -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Twins - Social aspects - Africa -
[NT 51458] Online resource:	http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253001634/
[NT 47265] Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9780253001634electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	0253001633electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9780253356246hbk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	0253356245hbk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9780253223074pbk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	0253223075pbk.
[NT 60779] Content Note:	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 : reflectionson ambiguity and ambivalence in northwestern Namibia / Steven Van Wolputte -- Sustaining the oneness in their twoness : poetics of twin figures (ere ibeji) among the Yoruba / Babatunde Lawal -- "Son dos los jimaguas" ("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 / SusanCooksey -- 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 ofTemne 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 eres 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

Twins in African and diaspora cultures : double trouble, twice blessed
Twins in African and diaspora cultures : double trouble, twice blessed / edited by Philip M. Peek - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (vi, 366 p.) ; ill., map..
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 : reflectionson ambiguity and ambivalence in northwestern Namibia / Steven Van Wolputte -- Sustaining the oneness in their twoness : poetics of twin figures (ere ibeji) among the Yoruba / Babatunde Lawal -- "Son dos los jimaguas" ("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 / SusanCooksey -- 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 ofTemne 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 eres 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9780253001634ISBN 0253001633ISBN 9780253356246ISBN 0253356245ISBN 9780253223074ISBN 0253223075
African diasporaTwins in artTwinsTwins -- Religious aspects -- Social aspects -- Africa -- Africa

Peek, Philip M

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