Pyramids and 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

Lisa L. Wynn

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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.

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