Yoga traveling: bodily practice in transcultural perspective
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...
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Format: | Electronic Book |
Language: | English |
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Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
Springer
[2013]
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In: | Year: 2013 |
Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
Series/Journal: | Transcultural research – Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Yoga
/ Interculturality
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Further subjects: | B
Social Sciences
B Regional planning |
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Summary: | 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 i |
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Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
ISBN: | 3319003151 |
Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00315-3 |