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Sweating saris : Indian dance as transnational labor / Priya Srinivasan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Srinivasan, Priya, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dance--Social aspects--India.
- Dance.
- Dance--Social aspects--United States.
- Women dancers--India--Social conditions.
- Women dancers.
- Women dancers--United States--Social conditions.
- Bharata natyam--Social aspects--United States.
- Bharata natyam.
- Foreign workers, East Indian--United States--Social conditions.
- Foreign workers, East Indian.
- East Indians--United States--Ethnic identity.
- East Indians.
- Ethnicity.
- Social conditions.
- Bharata natyam--Social aspects.
- Dance--Social aspects.
- United States.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-211) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439904299
- 1439904294
- 9781439904305
- 1439904308
- 9781439904312
- 1439904316
- OCLC:
- 711051004
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