Sweating Saris: Indian Dance as Transnational Labor

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Performing Ethnographic Failure
• 2. Transnational Hauntings of the Oriental Dancing Girl
• 3. St. Denis and the Nachwalis
• 4. Entering the Archive
• 5. Between 1924 and 1965 Immigration Acts
• 6. Negotiating Cultural Nationalism and Minority Citizenship
• 7. Manufacturing of the Indian Dancer through Off-Shore Labor
• Epilogue
• Glossary
• Works Cited
• Endnotes