Description |
1 online resource (466 pages) |
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Print version record. |
Contents |
1: Twinscapes; 2: Talk; 3: Performance; Acknowledgments; 4: Body; 5: Bond; 6: Culture; 7: Kin; 8: Twindividuals; References; Index. |
Summary |
Twins Talk is an ethnographic study of identical twins in the United States, a study unique in that it considers what twins have to say about themselves, instead of what researchers have written about them. It presents, in the first person, the grounded and practical experiences of twins as they engage, both individually and together, the "who am I" and "who are we" questions of life. Here, the twins themselves are the stars. Dona Lee Davis conducted conversational interviews with twenty-two sets of identical twins attending the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, the largest such gather. |
Subject |
Twins -- United States.
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Twins -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Ethnology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Davis, Dona Lee. Twins Talk : What Twins Tell Us about Person, Self, and Society. Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, ©2015 |
ISBN |
9780821444993 (electronic bk.) |
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0821444999 (electronic bk.) |
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