Pyramids and nightclubs
Subtitle: 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
By: L.L. Wynn.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780292717015; 9780292717022
Subjects: Urban anthropology -- Egypt -- Cairo; Culture and tourism -- Egypt -- Cairo; Cairo (Egypt) -- Public opinion; Cairo (Egypt) -- History; Cairo (Egypt) -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: From the pyramids to the nightclubs of Pyramids Road; title: Ethics and methodology of a transnational anthropology; title: Buried treasure; title: Atlantis and red mercury; title: Sex orgies, a marauding prince, and other rumors about gulf tourism; title: Transnational dating; title: Palimpsest, excavation, graffiti, simulacra : an ethnography of the idea of Egypt.