Overview
- Presents contributions by well-known scholars in the field of modern yoga studies as well as several new authors from a broad range of disciplines (social anthropology, sociology, psychology, history of religions, education)
- Investigates social phenomena related to yoga as cases in point to consider the transcultural flow of ideas, not following just one path, direction, or logic
- 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
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context (TRANSCULT)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Reframing Yoga in the History of the Twentieth Century
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Inconsistent Assessments: Meaning Production at the Local-Global Interface
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The Other Consumers: Values, Mobility, and Markets
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Yoga Traveling
Book Subtitle: Bodily Practice in Transcultural Perspective
Editors: Beatrix Hauser
Series Title: Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00315-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00314-6Published: 02 July 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00315-3Published: 22 June 2013
Series ISSN: 2191-656X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-6578
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 248
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour