Yoga Traveling Bodily Practice in Transcultural Perspective /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Hauser, Beatrix (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Heidelberg : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context,
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.