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Yoga Traveling
Hauser Beatrix
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Description for Yoga Traveling
Paperback. This book examines yoga's transcultural dissemination in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It explores yoga as a situated practice, shaped in distinctive ways against the backdrop of both global forces and local imaginings of India and its traditions. Editor(s): Hauser, Beatrix. Series: Transcultural Research - Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Num Pages: 259 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 169 x 14. Weight in Grams: 404.
This book focuses on yoga’s transcultural dissemination in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the course of this process, the term “yoga” has been associated with various distinctive blends of mental and physical exercises performed in order to achieve some sort of improvement, whether understood in terms of esotericism, fitness, self-actualization, body aesthetics, or health care. The essays in this volume explore some of the turning points in yoga’s historico-spatial evolution and their relevance to its current appeal. The authors focus on central motivations, sites, and agents in the spread of posture-based yoga as well as on its successive (re-)interpretation ... Read more
This book focuses on yoga’s transcultural dissemination in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the course of this process, the term “yoga” has been associated with various distinctive blends of mental and physical exercises performed in order to achieve some sort of improvement, whether understood in terms of esotericism, fitness, self-actualization, body aesthetics, or health care. The essays in this volume explore some of the turning points in yoga’s historico-spatial evolution and their relevance to its current appeal. The authors focus on central motivations, sites, and agents in the spread of posture-based yoga as well as on its successive (re-)interpretation ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Series
Transcultural Research - Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319003146
SKU
V9783319003146
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99-15
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