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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Main Author: Srinivasan, Priya, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2012]
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