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Ethical practice and techniques of the self at a yoga school in southern India
Author(s) -
Sidnell Jack
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
anthropology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-8322
pISSN - 0268-540X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8322.12361
Subject(s) - relation (database) , subject (documents) , sociology , epistemology , self , environmental ethics , psychology , philosophy , database , library science , computer science
Foucault's conception of ethics as the self's relation to itself and as the practices by which the individual attempts to constitute itself as a particular kind of ethical subject is briefly sketched, along with three corollaries that follow from this. It is then suggested that ethics so conceived provides a useful framework within which to describe the activities at a yoga school in southern India.