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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Foreigners Like Things Looking Old and Dark, Not Shiny -- 2. Mimesis, Kinship, Gift, and Other Things That Bind Us in Love and Desire -- 3. "Why Can't You Study Respectable Women?" -- 4. Mimesis, Genre, Gender, and Sexuality in Middle East Tourism -- 5. Demimonde: Belly Dancers, Extramarital Affairs, and the Respectability of Women -- 6. Gift, Prostitute: Money and Intimacy -- 7. "Honor Killing": On Anthropological Writing in an International Political Economy of Representations -- 8. Kinship, Honor, and Shame -- 9. Love, Revolution, and Intimate Violence -- Epilogue. Fifteen Years Later -- Notes -- References -- Index

Intro -- Contents -- 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 -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Bibliography -- Index.

Every day, headlines emphasise the impact that technology has on the manipulation of life. We all want to live longer, healthier, happier lives. To live at all costs and maintain life at all costs has become a popular aim. This book examines those costs; it probes the consequences of putting one's faith in science. It explores the belief that with science comes certainty. The use and misuse of implants, transplants, cloning, genetic manipulation, health care resources, birth and death control are debated in terms of the complex scientific, economic and ethical issues involved. Contents: Fronti