Israeli Backpackers and Their Society A View From Afar

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. Book jacket.Noy, Chaim is the author of 'Israeli Backpackers and Their Society A View From Afar', published 2005 under ISBN 9780791464977 and ISBN 0791464970.