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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
Publisher: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press
Date: 2007
Author/Creator: Wynn, L. L
Description: An ethnography of Arab and Western tourism in Egypt that explores nationalism, identity, gender, class, and labor migration.
Description: Introduction: From the Pyramids to the Nightclubs of Pyramids Road -- Ch. 1. Ethics and Methodology of a Transnational Anthropology -- Ch. 2. Buried Treasure -- Ch. 3. Atlantis and Red Mercury -- Ch. 4. Sex Orgies, a Marauding Prince, and Other Rumors about Gulf Tourism -- Ch. 5. Transnational Dating -- Ch. 6. Palimpsest, Excavation, Graffiti, Simulacra: An Ethnography of the Idea of Egypt.
Description: 1st ed.
Subject Keyword: Culture and tourism--Egypt --Cairo
Subject Keyword: Cairo (Egypt)--Public opinion
Subject Keyword: belly dance
Subject Keyword: Cairo (Egypt)--History
Subject Keyword: Cairo (Egypt)--Social life and customs
Subject Keyword: Urban anthropology--Egypt--Cairo
Subject Keyword: tourism
Subject Keyword: Saudi Arabia
Subject Keyword: labor migration
Subject Keyword: colonialism
Subject Keyword: New Age
Resource Type: book
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Anthropology

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