Yoga in Modern India: The Body between Science and Philosophy Paperback - 2004
by Joseph S. Alter
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- Paperback
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Details
- Title Yoga in Modern India: The Body between Science and Philosophy
- Author Joseph S. Alter
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used:Good
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2004-08-30
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX0691118744
- 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)
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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