Yoga Traveling: Bodily Practice in Transcultural Perspective

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319003143
• ISBN13: 9783319003146
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"