L. L. Wynn

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Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt

Navigating the Margins of Respectability

University of Texas Press

Combining vivid stories of love affairs with classic anthropological theories of kinship, gift-giving, and honor, this rich ethnography documents how ideals of relationships and respectability clash with the reality of life in modern Cairo.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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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

University of Texas Press

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

  • Copyright year: 2007
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