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Author:
Srinivasan, Priya, 1972-
Title:
Sweating saris : Indian dance as transnational labor / Priya Srinivasan.
Publisher:
Temple University Press,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
xvi, 221 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
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.
Notes:
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.
ISBN:
1439904316 (e-book)
9781439904312 (e-book)
1439904308 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781439904305 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1439904294 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781439904299 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)711051004
LCCN:
2011016213
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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