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Joseph S. Alter |
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jsalter@pitt.edu |
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Joseph Alter is Professor of Anthropology in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and Research Professor in the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. |
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AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Medical Anthropology; Culture of Science; Nationalism and Colonialism; Ideology and Power; Asian Medical Systems; Gender, Sex and Masculinity; Ecology and Health; South Asia.
BOOKS & EDITED VOLUMES:
The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6n39p104/
Knowing Dil Das: Stories of a Himalayan Hunter. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/13327.html
Gandhi’s Body: Sex, Diet and the Politics of Nationalism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2000. http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/13359.html Yoga in Modern India: The Body Between Philosophy and Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7886.html
Asian Medicine and Globalization. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14129.html Moral Materialism: Sex and Masculinity in Modern India. Penguin: New Delhi. 2011. http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/category/Non_fiction/Moral_Materialism_9780143417415.aspx
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
“Sacrifice and Immortality: Theoretical Implications of Embodiment in Hathayoga.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 2012. 35(2).
“Yoga, Modernity, and the Middle Class: Locating the Body in a World of Desire”. Companion to South Asian Studies. 2011. Isabelle Clark-Deces, ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
“Yoga in Asia – Mimetic History: Problems in the Location of Secret Knowledge.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 2009. 29(2):213-229. http://cssaame.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/29/2/213
“Rewriting the History of Medicine in Asia: Hakim Mohammed Said and the Society for the Promotion of Eastern Medicine.” Journal of Asian Studies. 2008 67(4):1165-1186. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=2541888 “Yoga Sivir: Performativity and the Study of Modern Yoga.” Yoga in the Modern World: Contemporary, Transnational Perspectives. 2008. Mark Singleton, ed. London: Routledge. http://www.routledgeasianstudies.com/books/Yoga-in-the-Modern-World-isbn9780415570862
“Ayurveda and Sexuality: Sex, Sex Therapy, and the ‘Paradox of Virility’” In Modern and Global Ayurveda: Pluralism and Paradigms. 2008. Pp. 177-201. Dagmar Wujastyk and Frederick Smith, editors. Albany: SUNY Press. http://www.sunypress.edu/p-4626-modern-and-global-ayurveda.aspx “The Once and Future ‘Apeman’: Chimera, Human Evolution, and Disciplinary Coherence.” Current Anthropology 2007 48(5): 637 – 652. http://online.sfsu.edu/~mgriffin/A760/CA48-637.pdf
“Yoga and Physical Education: Swami Kuvalayananda’s Nationalist Project.” Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity 2007 3: 20 - 36. http://www.brill.nl/asme “Physical Education, Sport and the Intersection and Articulation of ‘Modernities’: Hanuman Vyayam Prasarak Mandal.” The International Journal of the History of Sport 2007 24(9): 1155-1170. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/FHSP “Yoga and Fetishism: Reflections on Marxist Social Theory.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 2007 12: 763-783. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118606012/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
“Yoga at the Fin de Siècle: Muscular Christianity with a ‘Hindu’ Twist.” International Journal of the History of Sport, 2006 23(5): 759-776. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/FHSP “Indian Clubs and Colonialism: Hindu Masculinity and Muscular Christianity” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2004 46 (3): 497-534. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=270830
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