RT Book
T1 Yoga traveling: bodily practice in transcultural perspective
T2 Transcultural research – Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context
T2 SpringerLink Bücher
A2 Hauser, Beatrix
LA English
PP Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
PB Springer
YR 2013
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1652501975
AB This book focuses on yoga's transcultural dissemination in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the course of this process, the term ""yoga"" has been associated with various distinctive blends of mental and physical exercises performed in order to achieve some sort of improvement, whether understood in terms of esotericism, fitness, self-actualization, body aesthetics, or health care. The essays in this volume explore some of the turning points in yoga's historico-spatial evolution and their relevance to its current appeal. The authors focus on central motivations, sites, and agents i
NO Description based upon print version of record
CN HM623
SN 9783319003153
K1 Social Sciences
K1 Regional planning
DO 10.1007/978-3-319-00315-3