L. L. Wynn

Pyramids & Nightclubs: A Travel Ethnography of Arab and Western Imaginations of Egypt, from King Tut and a Colony of Atlantis to Rumors of Se

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Produktbeschreibung

A revealing ethnography of the ways in which globalism, history, and other factors shape perceptions of identity in urban Egypt.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of University of Texas
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 160mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780292717022
• ISBN-10: 0292717024
• Artikelnr.: 22781814

Autorenporträt

By L. L. Wynn

Inhaltsangabe

* A Note about Transliteration and Names
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: From the Pyramids to the Nightclubs of Pyramids Road
* Chapter 1. Ethics and Methodology of a Transnational Anthropology
* Chapter 2. Buried Treasure
* Chapter 3. Atlantis and Red Mercury
* Chapter 4. Sex Orgies, a Marauding Prince, and Other Rumors about
Gulf Tourism
* Chapter 5. Transnational Dating
* Chapter 6. Palimpsest, Excavation, Graffiti, Simulacra: An
Ethnography of the Idea of Egypt
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index