Exploring Twins: Towards a Social Analysis of Twinship
E. Stewart
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Description for Exploring Twins: Towards a Social Analysis of Twinship
hardcover. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United States
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
Number of Pages
221
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312235383
SKU
V9780312235383
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About E. Stewart
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.
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