Exploring Twins

Towards a Social Analysis of Twinship

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

AvE. Stewart

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This text presents an analysis of twinship considered as a specifically social phenomenon. Drawing upon a wide range of interdisciplinary, historical and cross-cultural data, Dr Stewart argues that in both traditional and modern societies, twinship represents a recurrent anomaly which calls into question the assumptions around which different types of society are organized. Part One identifies and analyzes the range of cultural and disciplinary approaches to the interpretation of twinship, while Part Two considers the possibilities for a distinctively social analysis of twinship.

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Utgivningsdatum2000-10-03
Mått140 x 216 x 11 mm
Vikt296 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor221
Upplaga2003
FörlagPalgrave USA
ISBN9781403911667

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List of Tables Preface PART ONE Myths About Twins The Comparative Constitution of Twinship: Anthropological and Ethnographical Perspectives Twins in Literature, Films, Television and the Press Heredity and Environment: The Classic Twin Method Measuring Twinship: Psychologist on Twins The Divided Self: The Psychoanalytic Approach PART TWO The Social Construction of Twinship: Family, Parents and Siblings The Social Construction of Twinship: We Two Together 'Are They Identical?: Twins' Parents Questionnaire and General Public Questionnaire Thinking Twinship: Childhood and the Formation of Self and Identity Towards the Social Analysis of Twinship Concluding Remarks Appendices Bibliography Index