Flexible India: Yoga's Cultural and Political Tensions

Shameem Black travels into unexpected realms of popular culture in English from India, its diaspora, and the West to explore and critique yoga as an exercise in cultural power.

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1. Verfasser: Black, Shameem 1976- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Columbia University Press 2024
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Zusammenfassung:Shameem Black travels into unexpected realms of popular culture in English from India, its diaspora, and the West to explore and critique yoga as an exercise in cultural power.
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Prologue: The Bracelet -- 1. Setting Up: Yoga's Flexible Forms -- 2. Conducting Mass Practice: India's Vision for Yoga -- 3. Aligning Both Hands: Yoga in Indian Fiction -- 4. Assuming Corpse Pose: Yoga in U.S. Popular Culture -- 5. Bending Over Backward: Yoga's Precarious Work -- 6. Framing New Parts: Yoga Through Diasporic Critique -- 7. Lying Out: Spectral Yoga -- Epilogue: The Moon -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (305 Seiten)
ISBN:9780231556286
DOI:10.7312/blac20602

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