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Informationen zum Autor Philip M. Peek is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Drew University. He is editor of African Divination Systems (IUP, 1991). Klappentext Peek and the contributors to this illuminating, multidisciplinary volume explore this rich cultural heritage by examining topics such as twins in artistic representation, twins and divination, and twins in performance, cosmology, religion, and popular culture. Zusammenfassung The two-sided traditions of multiple births in Africa Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Beginning to Rethink Twins / Philip M. Peek Part 1. Roots 2. Twins and Double Beings among the Bamana and Maninka of Mali / Pascal James Imperato and Gavin H. Imperato 3. Twins and Intertwinement: Reflections on Ambiguity and Ambivalence in Northwestern Namibia / Steven Van Wolputte Part 2. Doubles and Dualities 4. Sustaining the Oneness in their Twoness: Poetics of Twin Figures (Ère Ìbejì) among the Yoruba / Babatunde Lawal 5. "Son Dos los Jimagüas" ("The Twins Are Two"): Worship of the Sacred Twins in Lucumí Religious Culture / Ysamur Flores-Pena 6. Twins, Couples, and Doubles and the Negotiation of Spirit-Human Identities among the Win / Susan Cooksey 7. Double Portraits: Images of Twinness in West African Studio Photography / C. Angelo Micheli Part 3. The Centrality of Liminality 8. Forever Liminal: Twins among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria / Walter E. A. Van Beek 9. Snake, Bush, and Metaphor: Twinship among Ubangians / Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers 10. Fiction and Forbidden Sexual Fantasy in the Culture of Temne Twins / Frederick John Lamp 11. Embodied Dilemma: Tabwa Twinship in Thought and Performance / Allen F. Roberts 12. Children of the Moon: Twins in Luba Art and Ontology / Mary Nooter Roberts Part 4. Transformations 13. Two Equals Three: Twins and the Trickster in Haitian Vodou / Marilyn Houlberg 14. Divine Children: The Ibejis and the Erês in Brazilian Candomblé / Stefania Capone 15. The Ambiguous Ordinariness of Yoruba Twins / Elisha P. Renne 16. Twins, Albinos, and Vanishing Prisoners: A Mozambican Theory of Political Power / Paulo Granjo List of Contributors Index ...
