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Sweating saris : Indian dance as transnational labor

Author
Srinivasan, Priya, 1972-
Title
Sweating saris : Indian dance as transnational labor / Priya Srinivasan.
ISBN
9781439904299 (cloth : alk. paper)
1439904294 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781439904305 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1439904308 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781439904312 (e-book)
1439904316 (e-book)
Published
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xvi, 221 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 06, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-211) and index.
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.
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.
Bookmark As
https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/10173107
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