Joseph S. Alter

9 books

Yoga in Modern India: The Body Between Science and Philosophy by Joseph S. Alter

Yoga in Modern India: The Body Between Science and Philosophy

Joseph S. Alter

352 pages • 2004

nonfiction science informative slow-paced
Capturing the Ineffable: An Anthropology of Wisdom by Philip Y. Kao, Joseph S. Alter

Capturing the Ineffable: An Anthropology of Wisdom

Philip Y. Kao, Joseph S. Alter

264 pages • hardcover

medium-paced
Celibacy, Sexuality, and the Transformation of Gender into Nationalism in North India by Joseph S. Alter
Celibacy, Sexuality, and the Transformation of Gender into Nationalism in North India
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Joseph S. Alter

Celibacy, Sexuality, and the Transformation of Gender into Nationalism in North India

Joseph S. Alter

22 pages • 1994 not a book user-added

nonfiction
Gandhi's Body: Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalism by Joseph S. Alter

Gandhi's Body: Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalism

Joseph S. Alter

216 pages • 2000

informative medium-paced
Knowing Dil Das: Stories of a Himalayan Hunter by Joseph S. Alter
Knowing Dil Das: Stories of a Himalayan Hunter
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Joseph S. Alter

Knowing Dil Das: Stories of a Himalayan Hunter

Joseph S. Alter

missing page info • paperback • 1999

Knowing DIL Das: Stories of a Himalayan Hunter by Joseph S. Alter

Knowing DIL Das: Stories of a Himalayan Hunter

Contemporary Ethnography

Joseph S. Alter

216 pages • paperback

nonfiction reflective medium-paced
Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China by Andrew D. Morris, Joseph S. Alter

Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China

Andrew D. Morris, Joseph S. Alter

400 pages • 2004

informative reflective fast-paced
Moral Materialism: Sex and Masculinity in Modern India by Joseph S. Alter

Moral Materialism: Sex and Masculinity in Modern India

Joseph S. Alter

242 pages • 2011

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Wrestler's Body by Joseph S. Alter

The Wrestler's Body

Joseph S. Alter

332 pages • hardcover

nonfiction history sociology sports