Twins in African and Diaspora Cultures

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 North-West Namibia / Steven van Wolputte PART 2: Doubles and Dualities 4. Sustaining the Oneness in their Twoness: Poetics of Twin Figures (Ere Ibeji) among the Yoruba / Babatunde Lawal 5. 'Son dos los Jimaguas': Worship of the Sacred Twins in Lucumi Religious Culture / Ysamur Flores-Pena 6. Twins, Double Images, 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 Northern Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria / Walter 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 (Ta-Bari) / Frederick John Lamp 11. Embodied Dilemma: Tabwa Twinship in Thought And Performance / Allen F. Roberts 12. Children of the Moon: Twins in Luba Cosmology and History / Mary Nooter Roberts PART 4: Transformations 13. Two Equals Three: Twins and the Trickster in Haitian Vodou / Marilyn Houlberg 14. The Divine Children: The Ibejis and The Eres in Brazilian Candomble / Stefania Capone 15. The Ambiguous Ordinariness of Yoruba Twins / Elisha Renne 16. Twins, Albinos, and Vanishing Prisoners: A Mozambican Theory of Political Power / Paulo Granjo List of Contributors Index

Aesthetics · Art · Humanities · Liminality · Literature · Metaphor · Poetics · Poetry · Sociology · Theology · Trickster · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · History · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Philosophy · Religious studies · Africa · African diaspora · Blacks · Religious aspects · Social aspects · Social life and customs · Superstition · Twins · Twins in art