ISBN:
9781793615633
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (285 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society Series
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
306.4819
Keywords:
Spiritual tourism
Abstract:
In this ethnography, Laurah E. Klepinger examines wageworkers, yoga practitioners, and spiritual tourists in a transnational yoga institution. Klepinger argues that the institution's peacebuilding mission obscures the patterns of injustice and social inequality it reproduces.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- July 1, 2010 -- Autobiography of a Yogi -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Diacritics, Transliteration, and Language -- Gender-Inclusive Language -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Methods and Orientation -- "Peace" in the Anthropology of Globalization, Tourism, and Inequality -- Anthropology of Globalization: Cosmopolitanism and Inequality -- Cosmofeminism and Transnational Feminism -- Tourism and Anthropology -- Peace and Its Lack in New Spiritualities -- Re-Conceiving World Peace: Applying Transnational Feminism and Antiracist Anthropology to an Ethnography of Transnational Yoga -- Outline of the Book -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Biography of the SYVC in the Context of Transnational Yoga -- The SYVC: Biography of an NRI -- Humble Beginnings: 1947-1957 -- Growing Up in America: 1957-1977 -- The Return to India and the Globalized Present: 1978-Present -- What is Transnational Yoga? -- Defining Yoga -- Modern Yoga Studies -- Guru Devotion and Meditation Movements -- Post-lineage Yoga and Critical Yoga Studies -- The Karma Yoga Ethic and the Implications of Wage-Labor -- Workers, Staff, Guests: Contact, Community, and the Anthropologist's Place -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Bodies, Blood, and the Land of Modern Yoga: Competing Claims to a Transnational Practice -- Participants and Salient Demographics -- Gateway to Inner Peace -- Body, Land, and Legacy -- Gateway: A Close Reading -- The Language of Tourism -- Indian Teachers' Voices -- Scholarly Approaches to Embodiment and Inequality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Wage Work and Kitchen Hands: Paid Laborers and the Karma Yoga Ethic -- Paid Workers in a Voluntary Ashram -- Gender, Pain, and the Embodiment of Difference -- The Privileged and the Help: Domestic Service and Dividing Lines.
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