Exploring Twins: Towards a Social Analysis of Twinship

Stewart, E.

Exploring Twins presents an analysis of twinship considered as a specifically social phenomenom. Drawing upon a wide range of interdisciplinary, historical, and cross-cultural data, Elizabeth Stewart argues that in both traditional and modern societies, twinship represents a recurrent anomaly that calls into question the assumptions around which different types of society are organized.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2001-02-03

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780312235383

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Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 221