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Tightrope Walkers: An Ethnography of Yoga, Precariousness, and Privilege in California's Silicon Valley.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Tightrope Walkers: An Ethnography of Yoga, Precariousness, and Privilege in California's Silicon Valley./
Author:	Bar, Neta.
Description:	381 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-08A(E).
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3558132
ISBN:	9781303024863

Tightrope Walkers: An Ethnography of Yoga, Precariousness, and Privilege in California's Silicon Valley.
Bar, Neta.

Tightrope Walkers: An Ethnography of Yoga, Precariousness, and Privilege in California's Silicon Valley. - 381 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2013.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation offers an account of precarious neoliberal subjectivity by examining the suffering of the privileged as it relates to the practice of Western yoga in California's Silicon Valley. Yoga culture underlines creating connections and community. But my research, based on twenty-seven month fieldwork in an epicenter of the global high-tech economy, reveals that yoga practitioners actually seek to experience and create "space." I suggest that yoga practitioners often cultivate an interiority aimed at giving themselves room from the judgment and expectations of others.

ISBN: 9781303024863Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.

Tightrope Walkers: An Ethnography of Yoga, Precariousness, and Privilege in California's Silicon Valley.
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520 $a This dissertation portrays the complicated lives of people who are more privileged than most. In so doing, this study questions the separation between "real" and "privileged" suffering; and it explores the ethical and political implications of the problems of the well-off. I suggest that the destructive aspects of neoliberal capitalism and late modernity do not hurt only the marginalized traditionally studied by anthropologists, but also---albeit in very different ways---those who supposedly benefit from them.
520 $a The social scenes of modern yoga are sites of ambivalently embodied neoliberal logic, where clusters of promises and recipes for an "art of living" are critical about aspects of capitalism while enjoying its comfort. Even though the yogic ethic and politics do not adhere to the anthropological ideals of political action, Western yoga is often an ethical practice that does not simply reproduce neoliberal logic, but also shifts it slightly from within. By creating disruption of subjectivity and gaining space from old and habitual ways of being, yoga sometimes opens up a new territory of change and reflection.
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