02969nam a2200373 a 4500 ebr10481723 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 110419s2011 inuab sb 001 0 eng d 2011017162 9780253356246 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780253223074 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780253001634 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)747432797 f------ GN236.5 .T85 2011eb 306.875096 23 Twins in African and diaspora cultures [electronic resource] : double trouble, twice blessed / edited by Philip M. Peek. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2011. vi, 366 p. : ill., map. 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 (�ere �ibej�i) among the Yoruba / Babatunde Lawal -- "Son dos los jimag�uas" ("the twins are two") : worship of the sacred twins in Lucum�i 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 er�es in Brazilian candombl�e / Stefania Capone -- The ambiguous ordinariness of Yoruba twins / Elisha P. Renne -- Twins, albinos, and vanishing prisoners : a Mozambican theory of political power / Paulo Granjo. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Twins Social aspects Africa. Twins Africa Religious aspects. Twins in art. African diaspora. Electronic books. local Peek, Philip M. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10481723 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 225016 225016