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Sweating saris : Indian dance as transnational labor
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- Creator
- Priya Srinivasan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781439904299, 9781439904305, 9781439904312, 1439904308, 9781283333863, 1439904294, 1283333864, 1439904316, 9786613333865
- OCLC
- ocn762101893, ocn711051004, ocn768110986
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-211) and index.
- Performing ethnographic failure -- Transnational hauntings of the oriental dancing girl -- St. Denis and the Nachwalis -- Entering the archive -- Between 1924 and 1965 Immigration Acts -- Negotiating cultural nationalism and minority citizenship -- Manufacturing of the Indian dancer through off-shore labor
Subjects
- Dance -- Social aspects -- India.
- Dance -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Women dancers -- India -- Social conditions.
- Women dancers -- United States -- Social conditions.
- Bharata natyam -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Foreign workers, East Indian -- United States -- Social conditions.
- East Indians -- United States -- Ethnic identity.