Sweating saris [electronic resource] : Indian dance as transnational labor / Priya Srinivasan.
Publication details: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.Description: xvi, 221 p. : illISBN:- 9781439904299 (cloth alk. paper)
- 9781439904305 (pbk. alk. paper)
- 9781439904312 (e-book)
- 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
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- GV1693 .S75 2012eb
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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. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.