Israeli Backpackers and Their Society: A View From Afar

by Chaim Noy (Editor), Erik H. Cohen

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.

267 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005