Twins in African and diaspora cultures
Subtitle: double trouble, twice blessed
By: edited by Philip M. Peek
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780253356246; 9780253223074
Subjects: African diaspora; Religious aspects; Twins; Twins in art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : beginning to rethink twins / Philip M. Peek; title: Twins and double beings among the Bamana and Maninka of Mali / Pascal James Imperato and Gavin H. Imperato; title: Twins and intertwinement : reflections on ambiguity and ambivalence in northwestern Namibia / Steven Van Wolputte; title: Sustaining the oneness in their twoness : poetics of twin figures (ère ìbejì) among the Yoruba / Babatunde Lawal; title: "Son dos los jimagüas" ("the twins are two") : worship of the sacred twins in Lucumí religious culture / Ysamur Flores-Pena; title: Twins, couples, and doubles and the negotiation of spirit-human identities among the Win / Susan Cooksey; title: Double portraits : images of twinness in West African studio photography / C. Angelo Micheli; title: Forever liminal : twins among the Kapsiki/Higi of north Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria / Walter E.A. Van Beek; title: Snake, bush, and metaphor : twinship among Ubangians / Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers; title: Fiction and forbidden sexual fantasy in the culture of Temne twins / Frederick John Lamp; title: Embodied dilemma : Tabwa twinship in thought and performance / Allen F. Roberts; title: Children of the moon : twins in Luba art and ontology / Mary Nooter Roberts; title: Two equals three : twins and the trickster in Haitian vodou / Marilyn Houlberg; title: Divine children : the ibejis and the erês in Brazilian candomblé / Stefania Capone; title: The ambiguous ordinariness of Yoruba twins / Elisha P. Renne; title: Twins, albinos, and vanishing prisoners : a Mozambican theory of political power / Paulo Granjo.