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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Yoga Traveling
    sub title: Bodily Practice in Transcultural Perspective
  name:
    name part: Hauser, Beatrix.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 248 p. 11 illus., 8 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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 and diversification, addressing questions such as: Why has yoga taken its various forms? How do time and place influence its meanings, social roles, and associated experiences? How does the transfer into new settings affect the ways in which yogic practice has been conceptualized as a system, and on what basis is it still identified as (Indian) yoga? The initial section of the volume concentrates on the re-evaluation of yoga in Indian and Western settings in the first half of the twentieth century. The following chapters link global discourses to particular local settings and explore meaning production at the micro-social level, taking Germany as the focal site. The final part of the book focuses on yoga advertising and consumption across national, social, and discursive boundaries, taking a closer look at transnational and deterritorialized yoga markets, as well as at various classes of mobile yoga practitioners.
  table of contents: Introduction: Transcultural Yoga(s): Analyzing a Traveling Subject -- Part I: Reframing Yoga in the History of the Twentieth Century -- Transnational Exchange and the Genesis of Modern Postural Yoga -- Magic and Yoga: The Role of Subcultures in Transcultural Exchange -- The Impact of Kundalini Yoga on Concepts and Diagnostic Practices in Psychology and Psychotherapy -- Part II: Inconsistent Assessments: Meaning Production at the Local-Global Interface -- Touching the Limits, Assessing Pain: On Language Performativity, Health and Well-Being in Yoga Classes -- The Useful Body: The Yogic Answer to Appearance-Management in the Post-Fordist Workplace -- The Introduction of Yoga in German Schools: A Case Study -- Part III: The Other Consumers: Values, Mobility, and Markets -- Consuming Yoga, Conserving the Environment: Transcultural Discourses on Sustainable Living -- The Social Life of Yoga: Exploring Transcultural Flows in India -- Yoga as a Production Site of Social and Human Capital: Transcultural Flows from a Cultural Economic Perspective.
  note: edited by Beatrix Hauser.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Culture
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Cultural studies
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Cultural Studies
  subject:
    topic: Regional and Cultural Studies
  classification: HM623
  classification: 306
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
  identifier: 9783319003153
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00315-3
  record info:
    record creation date: 130622
    record change date: 20151030111122.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-00315-3