Yoga body : the origins of modern posture practice /
"Yoga Body charts the rise of postural yoga (āsana) in popular imagination and practice from the middle of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the Second World War. This period saw the forging of a postural canon that gave shape to what is today popularly accepted as the practical substa...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- A brief overview of yoga in the Indian tradition
- Fakirs, yogins, Europeans
- Popular portrayals of the yogin
- India and the international physical culture movement
- Modern Indian physical culture : degeneracy and experimentation
- Yoga as physical culture I : strength and vigor
- Yoga as physical culture II : harmonial gymnastics and esoteric dance
- The medium and the message : visual reproduction and the āsana revival
- T. Krishnamacharya and the Mysore āsana revival.
