Pyramids & nightclubs : a travel ethnography of Arab and Western imaginations of Egypt, from King Tu...
Pyramids & nightclubs : a travel ethnography of Arab and Western imaginations of Egypt, from King Tu...
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.
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Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.
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2007.
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N303.4819/ 1
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English
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xv, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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, graffi...
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Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.
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1st ed.
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Texas
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2007.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-265)and index.
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Other version (online)
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N303.4819/ 1
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74VK3OMyXzqA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3OMyXzqA
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ISBN
0292717024 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780292717015 (cloth : alk. paper)
0292717016 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292717022 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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306.4819096216
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991023737799702626
