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Sweating saris Indian dance as transnational labor /

Main Author: Srinivasan, Priya, 1972-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Dance > Social aspects > India.
Dance > Social aspects > United States.
Women dancers > Social conditions. > India
Women dancers > Social conditions. > United States
Bharata natyam > Social aspects > United States.
Foreign workers, East Indian > Social conditions. > United States
East Indians > Ethnic identity. > United States
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10513567
Table of 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.

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