Becoming skilled: The cultural and corporeal geographies of teaching and learning Thai Yoga massage

Geoforum

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 465-474

  Lea, Jennifer ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body; Complementary and alternative medicine; Deleuze; Dreyfus; Embodied knowledge; Ethics; Learning

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; LEARNING; TEACHING; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

EID: 67349256838     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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