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This presentation is a recording of my talk given at SOAS, London in November 2019, as part of the Hatha Yoga Project It is a brief sketch of my initial and ongoing research into the history, material culture, and political economy of poles in South Asia. Which has a particular focus on uncovering more details about “the wrestler’s pole”; which goes by many names but is most popularly known as malla-khamb (wrestler-pole). And is said to be the historical source of pole dancing, pole yoga, and, of course…polga.
This is an appendix that has a bunch of images related to the talk https://medium.com/@psdmccartney/appendix-four-mallakhamb-images-628ebaffe9f4
Patrick McCartney, PhD, is a JSPS Post-Doctoral fellow at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies at Kyoto University in Japan. Patrick explores the communication strategies involved in the politics of imagination, the sociology of spirituality, the anthropology of religion, and the economics of desire in relation to the imaginative consumption of global yoga. His current project focuses on the Japanese yoga industry in relation to global wellness tourism and can be followed at yogascapesinjapan.com.
© 2019 Patrick McCartney
Yogascapes in Japan by Patrick McCartney is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
