Joseph S. Alter

2.1k total citations
55 papers, 946 citations indexed

About

Joseph S. Alter is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph S. Alter has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 946 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 17 papers in Philosophy and 13 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Joseph S. Alter's work include Indian History and Philosophy (11 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (11 papers) and Sports, Gender, and Society (9 papers). Joseph S. Alter is often cited by papers focused on Indian History and Philosophy (11 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (11 papers) and Sports, Gender, and Society (9 papers). Joseph S. Alter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Singapore. Joseph S. Alter's co-authors include Mrinalini Sinha, Rajeshwari Nair and Philip Lutgendorf and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, The American Historical Review and American Anthropologist.

In The Last Decade

Joseph S. Alter

49 papers receiving 739 citations

Peers

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Mark Golden Canada

Sarah Lamb United States

Judith Farquhar United States

Susan Starr Sered United States

Sandra Lauderdale Graham United States

James M. Wilce United States

Yoram Bilu Israel

Henry A. Selby United States

Vieda Skultans United Kingdom

Thĥch Nhật Hanh

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211 ×1.0

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49 ×0.3

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26 ×0.2

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Alter, Joseph S.. (2023). Biosemiotics and Hominidae history: technicity, animals, and the limitations of human exceptionalism. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 29(4). 939–957. 1 indexed citations

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Alter, Joseph S.. (2023). The Embodiment of Meaning and the Meaning of Embodiment: Theoretical and Methodological Concerns in the Study of Postural Practice. 4. 491–513. 2 indexed citations

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Alter, Joseph S.. (2022). The Ethics of Yoga and the Spirit of Godmen. Social Analysis. 66(4). 48–68. 1 indexed citations

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Alter, Joseph S., et al.. (2017). Nature Cure and Non-Communicable Diseases: Ecological Therapy as Health Care in India. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 14(12). 1525–1525. 6 indexed citations

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Alter, Joseph S., et al.. (2016). Nature cure treatment in the context of India's epidemiological transition. Journal of Integrative Medicine. 14(4). 245–254. 2 indexed citations

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Alter, Joseph S.. (2015). Rachel Berger. Ayurveda Made Modern: Political Histories of Indigenous Medicine in North India, 1900–1955.. The American Historical Review. 120(1). 210–211.

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Alter, Joseph S.. (2014). Spirits and Exorcism: On the Semiotics of Healing and Recovery. Ethos. 42(4). 399–414. 3 indexed citations

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Alter, Joseph S.. (2008). Rethinking the History of Medicine in Asia: Hakim Mohammed Said and the Society for the Promotion of Eastern Medicine. The Journal of Asian Studies. 67(4). 1165–1165. 4 indexed citations

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Alter, Joseph S.. (2007). The Once and Future “Apeman”. Current Anthropology. 48(5). 637–652. 8 indexed citations

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Alter, Joseph S.. (2006). Yoga at theFin de Siècle: Muscular Christianity with a ‘Hindu’ Twist. The International Journal of the History of Sport. 23(5). 759–776. 11 indexed citations

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Alter, Joseph S.. (2005). Asian Medicine and Globalization. University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks. 51 indexed citations

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Alter, Joseph S.. (2005). Yoga in Modern India. Princeton University Press eBooks. 17 indexed citations

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Alter, Joseph S.. (2004). Yoga in Modern India: The Body between Science and Philosophy. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 119 indexed citations

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Alter, Joseph S.. (2000). Gandhi's Body. University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks. 95 indexed citations

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Alter, Joseph S.. (1999). Heaps of Health, Metaphysical Fitness. Current Anthropology. 40(S1). S43–S66. 33 indexed citations

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Alter, Joseph S.. (1997). Seminal Truth: A Modern Science of Male Celibacy in North India. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 11(3). 275–298. 32 indexed citations

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Alter, Joseph S.. (1997). A therapy to live by: Public health, the self and nationalism in the practice of a North Indian yoga society. Medical Anthropology. 17(4). 309–335. 14 indexed citations

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Alter, Joseph S.. (1995). Modernity and Identity: Asian Illustrations. ALBERTO GOMES, ed. American Ethnologist. 22(4). 1046–1047. 1 indexed citations

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Alter, Joseph S.. (1994). Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice. Edited by Thomas P. Kasulis, Roger T. Ames, and Wimal Dissanayake. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. xxii, 383 pp.. The Journal of Asian Studies. 53(1). 143–145. 36 indexed citations

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Alter, Joseph S.. (1994). Somatic Nationalism: Indian Wrestling and Militant Hinduism. Modern Asian Studies. 28(3). 557–588. 44 indexed citations

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