Yoga Traveling Bodily Practice in Transcultural Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hauser, Beatrix (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Cultural studies.; Social Sciences.; Cultural Studies.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

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 und...