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Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
Mark Singleton
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Description for Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: VFM; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world-practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping malls--that we take its presence, and its meaning, for granted. But how did the current yoga boom happen? And is it really rooted in ancient Indian practices, as many of its adherents claim? In this groundbreaking book, Mark Singleton calls into question many commonly held beliefs about the nature and origins of postural yoga (asana) and suggests a radically new way of understanding the meaning of yoga as it is practiced by millions of people ... Read more
Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world-practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping malls--that we take its presence, and its meaning, for granted. But how did the current yoga boom happen? And is it really rooted in ancient Indian practices, as many of its adherents claim? In this groundbreaking book, Mark Singleton calls into question many commonly held beliefs about the nature and origins of postural yoga (asana) and suggests a radically new way of understanding the meaning of yoga as it is practiced by millions of people ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
367g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195395341
SKU
V9780195395341
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About Mark Singleton
Mark Singleton teaches at St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the editor, with Jean Byrne, of Yoga in the Modern World: Contemporary Perspectives. He lives in Santa Fe.
Reviews for Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
What Mark Singleton does prove, with massive, irrefutable, fascinating and often hilarious evidence, is that yoga is a rich, multi-cultural, constantly changing inter-disciplinary construction, far from the pure line that its adherents often claim for it.
Wendy Doniger, Times Literary Supplement
This book, an invaluable source on modern yoga, should be on the reading list of every serious ... Read more
Wendy Doniger, Times Literary Supplement
This book, an invaluable source on modern yoga, should be on the reading list of every serious ... Read more