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Embodying transnational yoga : eating, singing, and breathing in transformation
Title
Embodying transnational yoga : eating, singing, and breathing in transformation / Christopher Jain Miller.
ISBN
1000985180
1000985210
1003414036
9781000985184
9781000985214
9781003414032
9781032538693
9781032538716
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Copyright Notice Date
©2024
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 164 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 17, 2023).
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Biographical / Historical Note
Christopher Jain Miller is Professor of Jain and Yoga Studies and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Arihanta Institute, San Jose, USA; Visiting Professor at Claremont School of Theology, Los Angeles, USA; and Visiting Researcher at the University of Z|rich's Asien-Orient-Institut, Z|rich, Switzerland.
Summary
"Embodying Transnational Yoga is a refreshingly original, multi-sited ethnography of transnational yoga that obliges us to look beyond postural practice (aasana) in modern yoga research. The book introduces readers to three alternative, understudied categories of transnational yoga practice which include food, music, and breathing. Studying these categories of embodied practice using interdisciplinary methods reveals transformative "engaged alchemies" that have been extensively deployed by contemporary disseminators of yoga. Readers will encounter how South Asian dietary regimens, musical practices, and breathing techniques have been adapted into contemporaneous worlds of yoga practice both within, but also beyond, the Indian Ocean rim. The book brings the field of Modern Yoga Studies into productive dialogue with the fields of Indian Ocean Studies, Embodiment Studies, Food Studies, Ethnomusicology, and Pollution Studies. It will also be a valuable resource for both scholarly work and for teaching in the fields of Religious Studies, Anthropology, and South Asian Religions"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Miller, Christopher Patrick, 1981- Embodying transnational yoga Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Routledge series on the Indian Ocean and Trans-Asia
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Engaged alchemies : new approaches to the study of contemporary yoga
Patanjali and Arjuna meet American countercuisine : yogic diet and selfless service at Gurani Anjali's yoga Anand Ashram, Long Island
Yogananda's sacred music in paradise: ukuleles and the Unstruck sound at Polestar Gardens, Hawaii
Internalizing the sacrifice in a sacrifice zone : situating purifying Prānāyāma in pollution at Kaivalyadhama yoga institute, Lonavala.
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