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13 produkter
Wrestler's Body
Identity and Ideology in North India
Inbunden, 1992
824 kr
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"The Wrestler's Body" tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter …
Yoga in Modern India
The Body between Science and Philosophy
Häftad, 2004
462 kr
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Yoga has come to be an icon of Indian culture and civilization, and it is widely regarded as being timeless and unchanging. Based on extensive ethnographic research and an analysis of both ancient and modern texts, Yoga in Modern India challenges this popular view by examining the history of yoga, …
Gandhi's Body
Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalism
E-bok, 2011
948 kr
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No single person is more directly associated with India and India's struggle for independence than Mahatma Gandhi. His name has equally become synonymous with the highest principles of global equality, human dignity, and freedom.Joseph Alter argues, however, that Gandhi has not been completely …
Knowing Dil Das
Stories of a Himalayan Hunter
E-bok, 2011
424 kr
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Dil Das was a poor farmer-an untouchable-living near Mussoorie, a colonial hill station in the Himalayas. As a boy he became acquainted with a number of American missionary children attending a boarding school in town and, over the years, developed close friendships with them and, eventually, with …
Asian Medicine and Globalization
E-bok, 2013
782 kr
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Medical systems function in specific cultural contexts. It is common to speak of the medicine of China, Japan, India, and other nation-states. Yet almost all formalized medical systems claim universal applicability and, thus, are ready to cross the cultural boundaries that contain them. There is a …
Knowing Dil Das
Stories of a Himalayan Hunter
Häftad, 1999
332 kr
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Dil Das was a poor farmer-an untouchable-living near Mussoorie, a colonial hill station in the Himalayas. As a boy he became acquainted with a number of American missionary children attending a boarding school in town and, over the years, developed close friendships with them and, eventually, with …
Gandhi's Body
Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalism
Inbunden, 2000
787 kr
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No single person is more directly associated with India and India's struggle for independence than Mahatma Gandhi. His name has equally become synonymous with the highest principles of global equality, human dignity, and freedom.Joseph Alter argues, however, that Gandhi has not been completely …
Asian Medicine and Globalization
Inbunden, 2005
685 kr
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Medical systems function in specific cultural contexts. It is common to speak of the medicine of China, Japan, India, and other nation-states. Yet almost all formalized medical systems claim universal applicability and, thus, are ready to cross the cultural boundaries that contain them. There is a …
China-Latin America and the Caribbean
Infrastructure, Connectivity, and Everyday Life
Av Enrique Dussel Peters, James A Cook m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
876 kr
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A long history of migration, trade, and shared interests links China to Latin America and the Caribbean. Over the past twenty years, China has increased direct investment and restructured trade relations in the region. In addition, Chinese public sector enterprises, private companies, and various …
Yoga in Modern India
The Body between Science and Philosophy
E-bok, 2021
640 kr
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Yoga has come to be an icon of Indian culture and civilization, and it is widely regarded as being timeless and unchanging. Based on extensive ethnographic research and an analysis of both ancient and modern texts, Yoga in Modern India challenges this popular view by examining the history of yoga, …
Capturing the Ineffable
An Anthropology of Wisdom
Av Philip Y. Kao, Joseph S. Alter
Inbunden, 2020
798 kr
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Grounded in ethnographic case studies that examine experiences from which wisdom emerges, Capturing the Ineffable provides a rigorous analysis of the sociocultural context of wisdom in the contemporary world. Each chapter in the volume deals with different aspects and showcases how communities in …
Capturing the Ineffable
An Anthropology of Wisdom
Av Philip Y. Kao, Joseph S. Alter
E-bok, 2020
1140 kr
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Grounded in ethnographic case studies that examine experiences from which wisdom emerges, Capturing the Ineffable provides a rigorous analysis of the sociocultural context of wisdom in the contemporary world. Each chapter in the volume deals with different aspects and showcases how communities in …
Capturing the Ineffable
An Anthropology of Wisdom
Av Philip Y. Kao, Joseph S. Alter
E-bok, 2020
1140 kr
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Grounded in ethnographic case studies that examine experiences from which wisdom emerges, Capturing the Ineffable provides a rigorous analysis of the sociocultural context of wisdom in the contemporary world. Each chapter in the volume deals with different aspects and showcases how communities in …
