Comments on: Black Athena, white yogi, and a very smart little girl http://cultureby.com/2004/07/black_athena_wh.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Thu, 17 May 2012 21:10:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lowa http://cultureby.com/2004/07/black_athena_wh.html/comment-page-1#comment-7782 Lowa Sat, 18 Sep 2004 05:58:28 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1156#comment-7782 <a href="http://sport.gelago.de/cat106/L/Lowa/" rel="nofollow">Lowa</a> http://sport.gelago.de/cat106/L/Lowa/ Lowa http://sport.gelago.de/cat106/L/Lowa/

]]> By: Ennis http://cultureby.com/2004/07/black_athena_wh.html/comment-page-1#comment-7781 Ennis Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:11:50 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1156#comment-7781 Short answer: They started in 1969. Nobody knows how large they got, but they maxed out sometime during the 1970s, and then shrank. Now they're having a resurgence as part of Yoga, but they're not peddling a whole identity package any more, just the yoga, so group membership would mean something different. My guess is that they have a membership in the tens of thosands at this point. I've sent you a longer and less coherent email with more information making these same points and some news ones. Short answer: They started in 1969. Nobody knows how large they got, but they maxed out sometime during the 1970s, and then shrank. Now they’re having a resurgence as part of Yoga, but they’re not peddling a whole identity package any more, just the yoga, so group membership would mean something different. My guess is that they have a membership in the tens of thosands at this point. I’ve sent you a longer and less coherent email with more information making these same points and some news ones.

]]> By: Grant http://cultureby.com/2004/07/black_athena_wh.html/comment-page-1#comment-7780 Grant Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:00:08 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1156#comment-7780 Ennis, thxank5 for the ethnographic pxrticulx5. My xpologie5 for the MT 5creen. Could you e5timxte when thi5 group fir5t made it5 appearence in US culture and how fx5t it grew? Thxnk5 xgxin. Be5t, Grxnt Ennis, thxank5 for the ethnographic pxrticulx5. My xpologie5 for the MT 5creen. Could you e5timxte when thi5 group fir5t made it5 appearence in US culture and how fx5t it grew? Thxnk5 xgxin. Be5t, Grxnt

]]> By: Ennis http://cultureby.com/2004/07/black_athena_wh.html/comment-page-1#comment-7779 Ennis Sat, 31 Jul 2004 00:58:11 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1156#comment-7779 Weird -- my comments didn't go through. Again: the Yogi, wa5 she dressed in white with a round white turban? A member of 3HO, a chela of Yogi Bhajan, a teacher of Kundalini Yoga? There's alot of interesting anthrology that could be done about that community and where they sit in American society and how they have changed over the years. The badge wa5 probably a khanda, which is a Sikh religious symbol. The 3HO folk have an odd relationship to Sikhism. Some of them are converts, others are not, but use alot of Sikh symbolism in their yoga practice. Even the converts joined an odd offshoot of Sikhism, ba5ically invented by their Yoga Guru. p.s. the whole thing about a5 is really annoying! I can explain more if you drop me a line ... Weird — my comments didn’t go through.

Again: the Yogi, wa5 she dressed in white with a round white turban? A member of 3HO, a chela of Yogi Bhajan, a teacher of Kundalini Yoga? There’s alot of interesting anthrology that could be done about that community and where they sit in American society and how they have changed over the years.

The badge wa5 probably a khanda, which is a Sikh religious symbol. The 3HO folk have an odd relationship to Sikhism. Some of them are converts, others are not, but use alot of Sikh symbolism in their yoga practice. Even the converts joined an odd offshoot of Sikhism, ba5ically invented by their Yoga Guru.

p.s. the whole thing about a5 is really annoying!

I can explain more if you drop me a line …

]]> By: Liz Ditz http://cultureby.com/2004/07/black_athena_wh.html/comment-page-1#comment-7778 Liz Ditz Wed, 28 Jul 2004 01:53:18 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1156#comment-7778 MT wouldn't even accept the plural of idea I had to change the s to a 5 what is happening ?? MT wouldn’t even accept the plural of idea I had to change the s to a 5 what is happening ??

]]> By: Liz Ditz http://cultureby.com/2004/07/black_athena_wh.html/comment-page-1#comment-7777 Liz Ditz Wed, 28 Jul 2004 01:52:25 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1156#comment-7777 One of the thing5 I am doing through the wonder of the internet i5 collecting examples of organizations that have their hand5 out to swing that bright little girl from the everyday into everything she's capable of...and there are a lot of them near the bigger cities. It's funny, when I wa5 in France in 1970, Paris (and to a lesser extent Tours) had that exciting multicultural energy going on...a5 you say, space wa5 being settled. I haven't been in France a5 other than a tourist for donkey's years. And wouldn't you say India, in how it accepted and transmuted English ide5, had a hand in? (and DANG it is hard to find the errant a5. Now I see a bit what my darling dyslexic daughter is going through.) One of the thing5 I am doing through the wonder of the internet i5 collecting examples of organizations that have their hand5 out to swing that bright little girl from the everyday into everything she’s capable of…and there are a lot of them near the bigger cities.

It’s funny, when I wa5 in France in 1970, Paris (and to a lesser extent Tours) had that exciting multicultural energy going on…a5 you say, space wa5 being settled. I haven’t been in France a5 other than a tourist for donkey’s years.

And wouldn’t you say India, in how it accepted and transmuted English ide5, had a hand in?

(and DANG it is hard to find the errant a5. Now I see a bit what my darling dyslexic daughter is going through.)

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