LEADER 01170nam 2200301Ia 4500001 99125342631106421 005 20200520144314.0 006 m o d | 007 cr -n--------- 008 060814s2007 miua ob s001 0 eng d 020 9780814337585 020 0814337589 035 (CKB)2560000000081829 035 (EBL)3416483 035 (SSID)ssj0000691782 035 (PQKBManifestationID)11450425 035 (PQKBTitleCode)TC0000691782 035 (PQKBWorkID)10634376 035 (PQKB)11314990 035 (MiAaPQ)EBC3416483 035 (OCoLC)794443086 035 (MdBmJHUP)muse19715 035 (Au-PeEL)EBL3416483 035 (CaPaEBR)ebr10594440 035 (OCoLC)923510978 035 (MiAaPQ)EBC31349319 035 (Au-PeEL)EBL31349319 035 (Perlego)4160598 035 (EXLCZ)992560000000081829 040 MiAaPQ |beng |erda |epn |cMiAaPQ |dMiAaPQ 041 eng 043 a-is--- 050 4 GV199.6 |b.N68 2007 082 0 796.5108992/4 |222 100 1 Noy, Chaim, |d1968- 245 12 A narrative community : |bvoices of Israeli backpackers / |cChaim Noy. 250 1st ed. 260 Detroit : |bWayne State University Press, |cc2007. 300 1 online resource (252 p.) 336 text |btxt 337 computer |bc 338 online resource |bcr 490 0 Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology 500 Description based upon print version of record. 546 English 505 0 Performing backpacking narratives. Arriving at the destination : no transcendence ; Persuasion. Intermezzo 1: from persuasion (in)to quotation -- Quotations and voices. Quotations ; Performing the chorus and the (occasional) emergence of individual voices ; Performing others' voices : quoting native and tourist. A visit to the television station (September 22, 2003) ; The collective-canonic voice : quoting the norm (of quoting). Eih omrim "eih omrim"? Aunt Malka'le and the search for collective authority ; From oral authority to written canon : quoting travelers' books and trail stories. Thorong La Pass : at 5,416 meters ; From speech community to vocal identity : the sound of quotations. Intermezzo 2: From quotation to self-transformation -- Conclusions. Self-transformation. "Garçon, get me someone who speaks Tibetan!" 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-229) and indexes. 520 8 An intertextual examination of the storytelling of Israeli backpackers that analyzes their unique patterns of communication to create a thorough picture of this "narrative community." Backpacking, or Tarmila'ut, has been a time-honored rite of passage for young Israelis for decades. Shortly after completing their mandatory military service, young people set off on extensive backpacking trips to "exotic" and "authentic" destinations in so-called Third World regions in India, Nepal, and Thailand in Asia, and also Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina in Central and South America. Chaim Noy collects the words and stories of Israeli backpackers to explore the lively interplay of quotations, constructed dialogues, and social voices in the backpackers' stories and examine the crucial role they play in creating a vibrant, voiced community. A Narrative Community illustrates how, against the peaks of Mt. Everest, avalanches, and Incan cities, the travelers' storytelling becomes an inherently social drama of shared knowledge, values, hierarchy, and aesthetics. Based on forty-five in-depth narrative interviews, the research in this book examines how identities and a sense of belonging emerge on different social levels-the individual, the group, and the collective-through voices that evoke both the familiar and the Other. In addition, A Narrative Community makes a significant contribution to modern tourism literature by exploring the sociolinguistic dimension related to tourists' accounts and particularly the transformation of self that occurs with the experience of travel. In particular, it addresses the interpersonal persuasion that travelers use in their stories to convince others to join in the ritual of backpacking by stressing the personal development that they have gained through their journeys. This volume is groundbreaking in its dialogical conceptualization of the interview as a site of cultural manifestation, innovation, and power relations. The methods employed, which include qualitative sampling and interviewing, clearly demonstrate ways of negotiating, manifesting, and embodying speech performances. Because of its unique interdisciplinary nature, A Narrative Community will be of interest to sociolinguists, folklore scholars, performance studies scholars, tourism scholars, and those interested in social discourses in Israel. 650 0 Backpacking |xSocial aspects. 650 0 Youth |zIsrael |xSocial life and customs. 776 08 |z9780814331767 776 08 |z0814331769 830 0 Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology 906 BOOK