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Yoga in Modern India: The Body between Science and Philosophy

Yoga in Modern India: The Body between Science and Philosophy Paperback / softback - 2004

by Joseph S. Alter

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Paperback / softback. New. Yoga has come to be an icon of Indian culture and civilization, and it is widely regarded as being timeless and unchanging. This book challenges this popular view by examining the history of yoga, focusing on its emergence in modern India and its dramatically changing form and significance in the twentieth century.
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  • Title Yoga in Modern India: The Body between Science and Philosophy
  • Author Joseph S. Alter
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2004-09-19
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780691118741
  • ISBN 9780691118741 / 0691118744
  • Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.14 x 6.2 x 0.75 in (23.22 x 15.75 x 1.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Indian
    • Religious Orientation: Hindu
  • Library of Congress subjects Metaphysics, Yoga
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003064108
  • Dewey Decimal Code 181.45

From the rear cover

"This is the first time Indian Modern Yoga has received such sustained, in-depth treatment by a reputable and well-informed scholar. Much of the book is quite accessible to the general reader, and many of Alter's more theoretical and analytical interpretations of modern understandings of yoga, health, medicine, the body, and truth claims are novel and stimulating. Highly recommended."--Elizabeth De Michelis, Director, Dharam Hinduja Institute of Indic Research, Cambridge University

"Yoga in Modern India is a mine of thought-provoking propositions in regard to the historiography of classical and modern writing on yoga. Well written, it provides detailed and frequently provocative analyses of particular yogic ideas and practices that contribute to a more sophisticated discussion about the status of modern yoga in its various guises over the last one-and-a-half centuries."--Waltraud Ernst, University of Southampton, author of Plural Medicine, Tradition, and Modernity, 1800-2000

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About the author

Joseph S. Alter is Professor of Anthropology and Research Professor at the University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Wrestler's Body, Knowing Dil Das, and Gandhi's Body.