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Title: | Twin Beliefs and Ceremony in Ga Culture |
Author: | Kilson, Marion |
Year: | 1973 |
Periodical: | Journal of Religion in Africa |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 171-197 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | Ga Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1594919 |
Abstract: | In many societies the birth of twins is regarded as an anomaly. In this paper the author discusses ideas associated with multiple human births in one West African society (the Ga of south-eastern Ghana) in which twin birth are regarded as desirable anomalies and in which the structural and mystical duality of twins is emphasized. After a brief statement of certain Ga beliefs and practices associated with twins, she gives a descriptive analysis of a Ga twin ceremony in order to show how this ceremony conveys certain Ga ideas about twinship and about communication between taxonomic classes in Ga thought. Notes, table. |