[Read ebook] Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
♥ Mark Singleton ♥
| #67901 in Books | imusti | 2010-02-10 | 2010-02-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.10 x.90 x9.10l,.88 | File Name: 0195395344 | 272 pages | Oxford University Press, USA
||36 of 37 people found the following review helpful.| A highly recommended scholarly book|By G. A. BRAVO-CASAS|Yoga Body is an important tool for every yoga scholar, well written and well documented. It is the author's PhD dissertation at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, where he worked as Research Assistant to Elizabeth De Michelis. Mark Singleton teaches at St. John's College, Santa Fe (NM), and was one of th|||"Singleton's radical, meticulously documented, sensitive analysis makes perfectly clear that what has come to be regarded as a veritable icon of Indic Civilization -- postural yoga -- is, in fact, unambiguously the hybrid product of colonial and post-colonia
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 postura...
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