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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wynn, L. L., 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban anthropology--Egypt--Cairo.
- Urban anthropology.
- Culture and tourism--Egypt--Cairo.
- Culture and tourism.
- Cairo (Egypt)--Public opinion.
- Cairo (Egypt).
- Cairo (Egypt)--History.
- Cairo (Egypt)--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Pyramids and nightclubs
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 2008 -- Leeds Honor Book in Urban Anthropology - Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology Living in Egypt at the turn of the millennium, cultural anthropologist L.L.Wynn was struck by the juxtapositions of Western, Gulf Arab, and Egyptian viewpoints she encountered.For some, Egypt is the land of mummies and pharaohs.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-265)and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-292-79512-2
- OCLC:
- 610127781
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