Sweating Saris

Priya Srinivasan is Associate Professor in Critical Dance Studies at the Department of Dance, University of California, Riverside.

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