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      Gandhi’s Body: Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalism

      Joseph S. Alter

      This brilliant and infuriating book is the latest intriguing offering from one of the most original anthropologists working… It offers us unpredictable and illuminating interpretations of classical material. -Journal of…

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      Yoga in Modern India: The Body Between Science and Philosophy

      Joseph S. Alter

      Yoga has come to be an icon of Indian culture and civilization, and it is widely regarded as being timeless and unchanging. This book challenges this popular view by examining…

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      Knowing Dil Das: Stories of a Himalayan Hunter

      Joseph S. Alter

      This rich and complex book is often moving, frequently thought-provoking. –

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      Asian Medicine and Globalization

      As more and more Asian medical practices cross into Western culture through the popularity of yoga and herbalism, and as Western medicine finds its way east in the form of…

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      The Wrestler’s Body: Identity and Ideology in North India

      Joseph S. Alter

      Tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. Using the insights of anthropology, this title presents ethnography of the wrestler’s physique that elucidates the…

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      China-Latin America and the Caribbean

      In addition, Chinese public sector enterprises, private companies, and various branches of the central government have planned, developed, and built a large number of infrastructure projects in Latin America and…

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      Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China

      Andrew D. Morris

      Not just your standard your typical sports history, this work is an attempt to see how the ideas of body-cultivation in China were used in teaching and learning about the…

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      Capturing the Ineffable: An Anthropology of Wisdom

      Wisdom transcends knowledge but is only meaningful and relevant in context. This book explores the tensions and paradoxes associated with the ineffability of wisdom in a range of social and…

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      Yoga in Transformation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

      Karl Baier,Dr. Philipp A Maas,Karin Preisendanz

      The religious, social and cultural contexts of yoga

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