Sweating Saris Indian Dance as Transnational Labor /

Srinivasan, Priya, 1972-

Sweating Saris Indian Dance as Transnational Labor / [Recurso electrónico] : Priya Srinivasan. - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (xvi, 221 p. :) ill. ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

Libro Electrónico

9781439904312




East Indians--Ethnic identity.--United States
Foreign workers, East Indian--Social conditions.--United States
Bharata natyam--Social aspects--United States.
Women dancers--Social conditions.--United States
Women dancers--Social conditions.--India
Dance--Social aspects--United States.
Dance--Social aspects--India.


Electronic books.

GV1693 / .S75 2011

793.3/1934