Exploring twins : towards a social analysis of twinship /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
[2000]
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Table of Contents:
- Myths about twins
- The comparative constitution of twinship: anthropological and ethnographic perspectives
- Duality and identity: twins in media
- Heredity and environment: the classic twin method
- Measuring twinship: psychologists on twins
- The divided self: the psychoanalytic approach
- The social construction of twinship I: family, parents and siblings
- The social construction of twinship II: 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.