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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Table of Contents:
- 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.