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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| Format: | Electrònic eBook |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2007.
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| Edició: | 1st ed. |
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| Accés en línia: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Taula de continguts:
- 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.