Exploring Twins: Towards a Social Analysis of Twinship

by Elizabeth A. Stewart

Book Overview

Exploring Twins 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 analyses the fascinating range of cultural and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403911665
• ISBN13: 9781403911667
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"