Twins, hermaphrodites, and an androgynous albino deity: twins and sculpted twin figures among the Bamana and Maninka of Mali.

From: African Arts | Date: March 22, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

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The Bamana (Bambara) and Maninka (Malinke) of Mali conceptualize twins in a broad context. This includes twins (flaniw) who are monozygotic or identical twins (two individuals born together and derived from one egg and one sperm), and dizygotic or fraternal twins (two individuals born together and derived from two separate eggs and two separate sperm), true and pseudo-hermaphrodites (tyetemousotew), and albinos (yefegew). (1) While identical twins are recognized as being different from fraternal ones because of their seemingly identical physical ...

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