Exploring Twins: Towards a Social Analysis of Twinship

ISBN-13: 9780312235383 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 221 str.

Elizabeth A. Stewart

Opis

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.

O autorze

Elizabeth A. Stewart lectures on the sociology of Soviet/Russian society at the London School of Economics. Her research interest in the social analysis of twinship arose from the birth of hew own twins.