Pyramids & nightclubs [electronic resource] : 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.
2007
GN648 .W96 2007eb
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Pyramids & nightclubs [electronic resource] : 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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1st ed.
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9780292717015 (cloth : alk. paper)
0292717016 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292717022 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0292717024 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0292717016 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292717022 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0292717024 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.
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English
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xv, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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GN648 .W96 2007eb
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306.4/819096216
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-265)and index.
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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.
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.