Yoga body : the origins of modern posture practice /
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New York :
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.