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Author Davis, Dona Lee, 1948- author.

Title Twins talk : what twins tell us about person, self, and society / Dona Lee Davis
Published Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (466 pages)
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
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Subject Twins -- United States
Twins -- Social aspects -- United States
Ethnology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Ethnology
Twins
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780821444993
0821444999