E-book
A narrative community : voices of Israeli backpackers
Record details
- ISBN: 9780814331767
- ISBN: 0814331769
- ISBN: 0814337589
- ISBN: 9780814337585
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©2007.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229) and indexes. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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!" |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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