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1500: 1015: 107: 206:'s "asana-free" yoga in the 1890s and the emergence of postural yoga in the 1920s, but not explaining either why asanas were absent at the start of that period, or how they became rehabilitated. Singleton however endorses Alter's methodology, namely to examine modern yoga's truth claims critically while also exploring the context and reasons for those claims, and considers both De Michelis and Alter to be "critically aware" of modern yoga's "dialectical relationship with tradition". The scholar 1171: 233: 162:, writes that it aims to correct the popular tendency to imagine an Indian, spiritual yoga opposed to a corrupt, materialistic American yoga, by examining what Indian texts from the 20th century say about yoga, and constructing a social history of the subject. In her view, what emerges is yoga "as a transnational system of knowledge and practice that emerged in the interstices of 178:
in the early 20th century a "mistake". All the same, she writes, it helped to transform yoga into what Alter called the "tremendously popular, eminently public, self-disciplinary regimen that produces good health and well being, while always holding out the promise of final liberation." She observes
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in late nineteenth- and early twentieth century India is directly linked to the reinvention of sport in the context of colonial modernity and also to the increasing use of physical fitness in schools, gymnasiums, clinics, and public institutions." Alter further suggests in his
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broadly agrees with Singleton, noting that posture "only became prominent in modern yoga in the early twentieth century as a result of the dialogical exchanges between Indian reformers and nationalists and Americans and Europeans interested in health and fitness".
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said that Alter's book helps researchers study Gandhi's biopolitics without falling into the trap of seeing "faddish" tendencies in him. It said that Alter offers original interpretations of Gandhi's practices, including his sexual experiments.
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and its sociological and ideological placement in American consumer society." In his view, the examples were well-researched and brought to life with suitable photographs.
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Van Hollen, Cecilia (May 2007). "Yoga in Modern India: The Body between Science and Philosophy. By Joseph S. Alter. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004".
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examines three main themes in the history and practice of yoga in the 20th century: Swami Kuvalayananda's medicalisation of yoga;
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that "Yoga was modernized, medicalized, and transformed into a system of physical culture." He calls the fusion of yoga's
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calls the book one of the main (early) studies of the development of modern yoga, like
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Yoga in Modern India The Body between Science and Philosophy | Joseph S. Alter
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Pehlwani : identity, ideology and the body of the Indian wrestler
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Yoga in modern India : the body between science and philosophy
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He is known for arguing, in his own words, that "The invention of
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The wrestler's body : identity and ideology in north India
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International Association of Yoga Therapists ā€¢ Richard Miller
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Yoga in Modern India: The Body between Science and Philosophy
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Gandhi's Body: Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalism
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also that Alter shows what "strange bedfellows" yoga and
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Gandhi's Body: Sex, Diet and the Politics of Nationalism
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Gandhi's Body: Sex, Diet and the Politics of Nationalism
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Yoga Body : the origins of modern posture practice
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Moral Materialism: Sex and Masculinity in Modern India
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medical anthropologist
yoga as exercise
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Uttarakhand
University of California at Berkeley
anthropology
University of Pittsburgh
postural yoga
subtle body
anatomy
physiology

Vivekananda
yoga
asanas
naturopathic
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
Yoga Journal
colonialism
subtle body
anatomy
physiology
Hindu nationalism
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
yoga's philosophy
Mark Singleton
Elizabeth De Michelis
Vivekananda
Andrea R. Jain
Association for Asian Studies

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