Srinivasan, Priya, 1972-

Sweating saris Indian dance as transnational labor / [electronic resource] : Priya Srinivasan. - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012. - xvi, 221 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references 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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2012.
Available via World Wide Web.
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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


Electronic books.

GV1693 / .S75 2012eb

793.3/1934

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