Israeli Backpackers: From Tourism to Rite of Passage (Israeli Studies) - Softcover

 
9780791464984: Israeli Backpackers: From Tourism to Rite of Passage (Israeli Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0791464989 ISBN 13: 9780791464984
Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2006

Synopsis

Examines the backpacking trip usually taken by Israeli youth following military service.

In the period after their military service, Jewish Israeli youth customarily embark on a unique touristic practice: the backpacking trip. Combining sociological, anthropological, and psychological research-based on innovative fieldwork conducted with Israeli backpackers in Israel and abroad-this book depicts the complex relationship between the traveling youth and their society of origin. Via a perspective the editors term "outside-in," we learn how social and cultural tensions and tenets, identities, fantasies, and preoccupations are acted out within a symbolic, touristic space by scores of Israeli youth.

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About the Author

Chaim Noy teaches in the Department of Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Erik Cohen is George S. Wise Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is the author of many books, including Contemporary Tourism: Diversity and Change.

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Publisher
State University of New York Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0791464989
ISBN 13 
9780791464984
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
268
Editor
Noy Chaim, Cohen Erik