num_pages: 268
description: In the period after their military service, Jewish Israeli youth customarily embark on a unique touristic 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.
language: English
title: Israeli Backpackers and Their Society: A View From Afar
titlecomplete: Israeli Backpackers and Their Society: A View From Afar
ratings_count: 4
publisher: State University of New York Press