Epilogue
This short epilogue returns, in broad strokes, to some of the issues explored in the preceding chapters, specifically definition, identity, origins, ideological imperialism, and colonial appropriation. It takes up the issues inherent in treating influence as a mechanical process that represents an objective, accurate, and wholesale transfer of knowledge. It also grapples with the unavoidable issues of personal identity that characterize our engagement, both as scholars and as practitioners, in dealing with culturally complex, situated, and diffuse concepts and practices. Finally, it argues that we should take practices like popular yoga seriously, even as we acknowledge and critique their problematic histories and equally problematic contemporary dynamics.