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Twins talk : what twins tell us about person, self, and society / Dona Lee Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Dona Lee, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Twins--Social aspects--United States.
- Twins.
- Twins--United States.
- Ethnology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (466 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Dona Lee Davis conducted conversational interviews with twenty-two sets of identical twins attending the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, the largest such gathering in the world. Lively and often opinionated, each twin comes through as a whole person who at the same time maintains a special bond that the vast majority of people will never experience. The study provides a distinctive and enlightening insider's challenge to the nature/nurture debates that dominate contemporary research on twins. The author, herself an identical twin, draws on aspects of her own life to inform her analysis of the data throughout the text. Each chapter addresses a different theme from multiple viewpoints, including those of popular science writers, scientific researchers, and singletons, as well as those of the twins themselves.
- Contents:
- Twinscapes
- Talk
- Performance
- Body
- Bond
- Culture
- Kin
- Twindividuals.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8214-4499-9
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