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LEADER: 03481nam a22002538a 4500
001 2009014275
003 DLC
005 20090408110703.0
008 090406s2010 enk b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2009014275
020 $a9780195395341 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a9780195395358 (hardback : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aRA781.7$b.S568 2010
082 00 $a613.7/046$222
100 1 $aSingleton, Mark,$d1976-
245 10 $aYoga body :$bthe origins of modern posture practice /$cMark Singleton.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2010.
263 $a1002
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- An outline of the project -- Sources, methods and demarcations -- Transnational anglophone yoga -- Primary and secondary sources -- Orientalism -- Representations of yoga : methodological considerations -- The academic study of modern yoga -- Postwar developments in transnational yoga 1 : a brief overview of yoga in the Indian traditions -- Yoga in traditional Hinduism -- Hatha yoga -- Transnational "hatha" yoga -- Fakirs, yogins, Europeans -- Early European encounters fighting yogins and bhakti ascendancy -- Nineteenth century scholarship -- Hatha yoga in translation -- S.C. Vasu and the sacred books of the Hindus -- Vasu and the hatha yogin -- Basu, Dayananda, Paul : the roots of modern medical hatha yoga -- Popular portrayals of the yogi -- The topos of the performing yogi -- "The most stoopendous marvel of the age" : Yogi Bava Lachman Dass -- The posture master and European contortionism -- The yogi-fakir as magician -- Anti-hatha sentiment in Vivekananda -- Vivekananda and Müller -- Fakir's avenue : Blavatsky and hatha yoga -- Anti-hatha tendencies in early popular yoga primers -- India and the international physical culture movement -- The dawn of nationalist physical culture -- Scandinavian gymnastics -- Ling and yoga -- Sandow and bodybuilding -- Young Men's Christian Association -- Modern Indian physical culture : degeneracy and experimentation -- Physical culture as eugenics -- Nationalist physical culture -- Hatha yoga and feats of strength -- Other early syntheses -- Yoga as physical culture I : strength and vigour -- Contexts of physical culture as yoga -- Kuvalayananda -- Yogendra and the domestication of yoga -- Iyer, Sundaram, Balsekar : yoga body beautiful -- The new thought yogis -- New thought and the body -- Yogi Gherwal -- West Coast yogis : Wassan, Hari Rama, Bhagwan Gyanee -- Yoga as physical culture II : harmonial gymnastics and esoteric dance -- Genevieve Stebbins and American delsartism -- Glands for God : Cajzoran Ali -- Harmonial gymnastics in Britain -- German gymnastik and the Somatics movement -- Yoga in mainstream western physical culture -- Women's stretching regimes -- Gendered yogas -- The medium and the message : visual reproduction and the Asana revival -- Tradition and modernity in Indian art -- The pictorial postural yoga manual -- T. Krishnamacharya and the Mysore Asana revival -- The Maharaja and the Mysore Physical Culture movement -- Suryanamaskar and palace physical education yoga Kurunta and the origins of Ashtanga Vinyasa skillful means : pragmatism in Krishnamacharya's yoga demonstrations : yoga as spectacle -- Dissent -- Gymnastics Indian and foreign : the derivation of the Mysore style foreign -- Indian -- Modernity in tradition.
650 0 $aHatha yoga.
650 0 $aPosture.