Twins in African and Diaspora Cultures Double Trouble, Twice Blessed

Name: Twins in African and Diaspora Cultures Double Trouble, Twice Blessed
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ISBN: 9780253223074

ISBN-10: 0253223075

ISBN-13: 9780253223074

Edition: 2011

Authors: Philip M. Peek, Pascal James Imperato, Steven van Wolputte, Babatunde Lawal, Ysamur M. Flores-Peï¿½a

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 7/18/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.144

Steven Van Wolputte is a faculty member at the Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa at Leuven University, Belgium.



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Beginning to Rethink Twins




Roots



Twins and Double Beings among the Bamana and Maninka of Mali




Twins and Intertwinement: Reflections on Ambiguity and Ambivalence in Northwestern Namibia




Doubles and Dualities



Sustaining the Oneness in Their Twoness: Poetics of Twin Figures (ï¿½re ï¿½bejï¿½) among the Yoruba




ï¿½Son Dos los Jimagï¿½asï¿½ (ï¿½The Twins Are Twoï¿½): Worship of the Sacred Twins in Lucumï¿½ Religious Culture




Twins, Couples, and Doubles and the Negotiation of Spirit-Human Identities among the Win




Double Portraits: Images of Twinness in West African Studio Photography




The Centrality of Liminality



Forever Liminal: Twins among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria




Snake, Bush, and Metaphor: Twinship among Ubangians




Fiction and Forbidden Sexual Fantasy in the Culture of Temne Twins




Embodied Dilemma: Tabwa Twinship in Thought and Performance




Children of the Moon: Twins in Luba Art and Ontology




Transformations



Two Equals Three: Twins and the Trickster in Haitian Vodou




Divine Children: The Ibejis and the Erï¿½s in Brazilian Candomblï¿½




The Ambiguous Ordinariness of Yoruba Twins




Twins, Albinos, and Vanishing Prisoners: A Mozambican Theory of Political Power



List of Contributors


Index