Pyramids & nightclubs : a travel ethnography of Arab and Western imaginations of Egypt, from King Tut and a colony of Atlantis to rumors of sex orgies, urban legends about a marauding prince, and blonde belly dancers / / L.L. Wynn.

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Year of Publication:2007
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:xv, 279 p. :; ill.
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246 3 |a Pyramids and nightclubs 
250 |a 1st ed. 
260 |a Austin :  |b University of Texas Press,  |c 2007. 
300 |a xv, 279 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-265)and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction: From the pyramids to the nightclubs of Pyramids Road -- Ethics and methodology of a transnational anthropology -- Buried treasure -- Atlantis and red mercury -- Sex orgies, a marauding prince, and other rumors about gulf tourism -- Transnational dating -- Palimpsest, excavation, graffiti, simulacra : an ethnography of the idea of Egypt. 
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650 0 |a Urban anthropology  |z Egypt  |z Cairo. 
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651 0 |a Cairo (Egypt)  |x Social life and customs. 
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