Constructions of Self and Other in Yoga, Travel, and Tourism A Journ
This volume considers the phenomenon of yoga travel as an instance of a broader genre of ‘spiritual travel’ involving journeys to places ‘elsewhere’, which are imagined to offer the possibility of profound personal transformation. These imaginings a
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Lori G. Beaman and Sonia Sikka
Constructions of Self and Other in Yoga, Travel, and Tourism
Lori G. Beaman • Sonia Sikka Editors
Constructions of Self and Other in Yoga, Travel, and Tourism A Journey to Elsewhere
Editors Lori G. Beaman University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Sonia Sikka University of Ottowa Ottowa, Ontario, Canada
ISBN 978-3-319-32511-8 ISBN 978-3-319-32512-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32512-5
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CONTENTS
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Introduction: A Journey to Elsewhere Lori G. Beaman and Sonia Sikka
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Journeys That Go Nowhere: Eurocentric Prejudice and the Refusal to Hear Sonia Sikka
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Journey Through the Third Space: Performing Aboriginal Identity Through Historic Re-Enactment Sites Pamela Lee Transformative Encounters: Destabilising Human/Animal and Nature/Culture Binaries Through Cross-Cultural Engagement Alexis Reichert
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5
Eat, Pray, Love and Tourism Imaginaries Ellen Badone
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Displacing the Domestic: The Elsewhere of Transcendence Meera Baindur
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Urban Journey: A Woman’s Guidebook to Self-Discovery in Berlin Despina Stratigakos
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Religious Tourism Through a Gender Lens Mary Jo Neitz
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Time, Space, and the Fantasised Other in Me Géraldine Mossière
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A Ticket to Self-Discovery: Situating Yoga in Yoga Travel Manvitha Singamsetty
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Being on the Mat: Quasi-Sacred Spaces, ‘Exotic’ Other Places, and Yoga Studios in the ‘West’ Lisa Smith
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Namaste: The Perilous Journey of ‘Real’ Yoga Lori G. Beaman
Index
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NOTES
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CONTRIBUTORS
Ellen Badone holds an MA in anthropology from the University of Toronto and a PhD in anthropology from the Univ
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