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.
Publication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 279 p. : illOther title:- Pyramids and nightclubs
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- GN648 .W96 2007eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-265)and index.
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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