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Title: 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. Pyramids and nightclubs
Pyramids and nightclubs Pyramids and nightclubs
Main Entry: Wynn, L. L., 1971-
ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: University of Texas Press,
Publication Date: 2007.
Publication Place: Austin :
ISBN: 9780292717015 (cloth : alk. paper)
0292717016 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292717022 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0292717024 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject: Urban anthropology -- Egypt -- Cairo.
Culture and tourism -- Egypt -- Cairo.
Cairo (Egypt) -- Public opinion.
Cairo (Egypt) -- History.
Cairo (Egypt) -- Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Edition: 1st ed.
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.

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