Yoga Body

The practice of yoga has become hugely popular in the West. Most people assume (and many claim) that 'postural' yoga - characterized by the familiar, demanding, physical poses - is an ancient Indian tradition. But in fact, as Mark Singleton shows, this type of yoga is quite a recent development, with its beginnings traceable to the middle of the 19th-century. Singleton here presents the first in-depth study of the origins of postural yoga, challenging many current notions about its
nature and origins.

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Wendy Doniger, Times Literary Supplement 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.

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Brief overview of yoga in the Indian traditions; 2. Fakirs, yogins, Europeans; 3. Popular portrayals of the yogin; 4. India and the International Physical Cultural Movement; 5. Modern Indian Physical Culture: Degeneracy and Experimentation; 6. Yoga as Physical Culture 1: Strength and Vigour; 7. Yoga as Physical Culture II: Harmonial Gymnastics; 8. The Medium and the Message: Visual Reproduction and the Asana Revival; 9. T. Krishnamacharya and the Mysore Asana Revival; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

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