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Sinister Yogis

Sinister Yogis( )
Author: White, David Gordon
ISBN:978-0-226-89514-7
Publication Date:Mar 2011
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $57.95
Book Description:

Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story of yoga's origins in South Asia is far richer, stranger, and more entertaining than most of us realize.

To uncover this history, David Gordon White focuses on yoga's practitioners. Combing through millennia of South Asia's vast and...
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Book Details
Pages:376
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Religious
Health & Fitness / Yoga
History / Asia / South / India
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.2 x 22.7 x 2.6 cm
Book Weight:0.51 Kilograms



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