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The center and circumference of silence: Yoga, poststructuralism, and the rhetoric of paradox

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Kalamaras, G. The center and circumference of silence: Yoga, poststructuralism, and the rhetoric of paradox. Hindu Studies 1, 3–18 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-997-0010-0

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