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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
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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.
ISBN
0292795122
9780292795129
0292717016 (cloth : alk. paper)
0292717024 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780292717015 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292717022 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 279 p. :) ill. ;
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Archival Complete Foundation Collection
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Books Archival Subscription Plan
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Global Cultural Studies Foundation Collection
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 13, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-265)and index.
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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