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Sweating saris : Indian dance as transnational labor / Priya Srinivasan.
Publication details: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.Description: xvi, 221 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781439904305 (pbk.) :
- 1439904308 (pbk.) :
- 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
- GV1693 .S75 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.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | GV 1693 .S75 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5062184 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
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