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  • Yoga in Modern India

    The Body between Science and Philosophy

    de 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. Based on extensive ethnographic research and an analysis of both ancient and modern texts, Yoga in Modern India challenges this popular view by examining the history of yoga, focusing on its emergence in modern India and its dramatically changing form and significance in the ... Leer más

    $38.19 USD

  • Connecting China, Latin America, and the Caribbean

    Infrastructure and Everyday Life

    Edición de Enrique Dussel Peters, James A. Cook, Joseph S. Alter ...
    Series series Pitt Latin American Series
    A long history of migration, trade, and shared interests links China to Latin America and the Caribbean. Over the past twenty years, China has increased direct investment and restructured trade relations in the region. 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 ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Capturing the Ineffable

    An Anthropology of Wisdom

    Edición de Philip Y. Kao, Joseph S. Alter ...
    Grounded in ethnographic case studies that examine experiences from which wisdom emerges, Capturing the Ineffable provides a rigorous analysis of the sociocultural context of wisdom in the contemporary world. Each chapter in the volume deals with different aspects and showcases how communities in different contexts - nursing homes, religious organizations, corporations, and monastic institutions, ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Asian Medicine and Globalization

    Edición de Joseph S. Alter ...
    Series series Encounters with Asia
    Medical systems function in specific cultural contexts. It is common to speak of the medicine of China, Japan, India, and other nation-states. Yet almost all formalized medical systems claim universal applicability and, thus, are ready to cross the cultural boundaries that contain them. There is a critical tension, in theory and practice, in the ways regional medical systems are conceptualized as ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Asian Medicine and Globalization

    Edición de Joseph S. Alter ...
    Series series Encounters with Asia
    Medical systems function in specific cultural contexts. It is common to speak of the medicine of China, Japan, India, and other nation-states. Yet almost all formalized medical systems claim universal applicability and, thus, are ready to cross the cultural boundaries that contain them. There is a critical tension, in theory and practice, in the ways regional medical systems are conceptualized as ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

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  • Buddhism and Bioethics

    de Damien Keown ...
    Buddhism and Bioethics is the first book to discuss contemporary issues in bioethics from a Buddhist perspective. Written in a clear and accessible style by a leading expert in field, and drawing on both ancient and modern sources, it shows how Buddhist ethical teachings can be applied to a range of controversial issues like abortion and euthanasia. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • White Saris and Sweet Mangoes

    Aging, Gender, and Body in North India

    de Sarah Lamb ...
    This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open up new ways of thinking about South Asian social life, but also to contribute to contemporary ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets

    Medicine and Martial Arts in South India

    de Roman Sieler ...
    Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets provides an ethnographic study of varmakkalai, or "the art of the vital spots," a South Indian esoteric tradition that combines medical practice and martial arts. Although siddha medicine is officially part of the Indian Government's medically pluralistic health-care system, very little of a reliable nature has been written about it. Drawing on a diverse array of ... Leer más

    $41.39 USD

  • Yoga Body : The Origins Of Modern Posture Practice

    The Origins of Modern Posture Practice

    de Mark Singleton ...
    Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world--practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping malls--that we take its presence, and its meaning, for granted. But how did the current yoga boom happen? And is it really rooted in ancient Indian practices, as many of its adherents claim? In this groundbreaking book, Mark Singleton calls into question ... Leer más

    $17.09 USD

  • Favela

    Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro

    de Janice Perlman ...
    Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries that story forward to the present. Re-interviewing many longtime favela residents whom she had first met in 1969--as well as their children and grandchildren--Perlman offers the only long-term ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • The Buddhist and the Ethicist

    Conversations on Effective Altruism, Engaged Buddhism, and How to Build a Better World

    de Peter Singer, Shih Chao-Hwei ...
    Eastern spirituality and utilitarian philosophy meet in these unique dialogues between a Buddhist monastic and a moral philosopher on such issues as animal welfare, gender equality, the death penalty, and moreAn unlikely duo—Professor Peter Singer, a preeminent philosopher and professor of bioethics, and Venerable Shih Chao-Hwei, a Taiwanese Buddhist monastic and social activist—join forces to ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Buddhist Philosophy

    Essential Readings

    Edición de William Edelglass, Jay Garfield ...
    The Buddhist philosophical tradition is vast, internally diverse, and comprises texts written in a variety of canonical languages. It is hence often difficult for those with training in Western philosophy who wish to approach this tradition for the first time to know where to start, and difficult for those who wish to introduce and teach courses in Buddhist philosophy to find suitable textbooks ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD