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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 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 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 |
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| GV 1618 .H6 1968 Pre-classic dance forms / | GV 1650 .P3 G8 1966 The Romantic ballet in Paris / | GV 1673 .I92 1970 The dancing Spaniards / | GV 1693 .S75 2011 Sweating saris : Indian dance as transnational labor / | GV 1693 .T73 2016 Traversing tradition : celebrating dance in India / | GV 1704 .B86 1994 Serpent of the Nile : women and dance in the Arab world / | GV 1753.5 .W45 2003 Teaching movement & dance : a sequential approach to rhythmic movement. |
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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