01164nam a2200217Ia 4500 CTU_116404 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 361000 306.87521 S851 Stewart, Elizabeth A. Exploring twins : Towards a social analysis of twinship Elizabeth A. Stewart New York Palgrave 2000 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, Elizabeth A. 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 I identifies and analyzes the fascinating range of cultural and disciplinary approaches to the interpretation of twinship, while Part II considers the possibilities for a distinctively social analysis of twinship. Twins Hiếu Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ