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Sweating saris : Indian dance as transnational labor /

A groundbreaking book that seeks to understand dance as labor, Sweating Saris examines dancers not just as aesthetic bodies but as transnational migrant workers and wage earners who negotiate citizenship and gender issues. Srinivasan merges ethnography, history, critical race theory, performance and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Srinivasan, Priya, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.