A Narrative Community: Voices of Israeli Backpackers

Contents

Itinerary vii Site I: Introduction: Persuasion 1. Performing Backpacking Narratives 3 EArriving at the Destination: No Transcendence 24 2. Persuasion 27 Intermezzo 1: From Persuasion (in)to Quotation 44 Site II: Quotations And Voices 3. Quotations 49 4. Performing the Chorus and the (Occasional) Emergence of Individual Voices 61 5. Performing Others’ Voices: Quoting Native and Tourist 79 EA Visit to the Television Station (September 22, 2003) 93 6. The Collective-Canonic Voice: Quoting the Norm (of Quoting) 103 EEih Omrim “Eih Omrim”?: Aunt Malka’le and the Search for Collective Authority 118 7. From Oral Authority to Written Canon: Quoting Travelers’ Books and Trail Stories 129 EThorong La Pass: At 5,416 Meters 144 8. From Speech Community to Vocal Identity: The Sound of Quotations 147 Intermezzo 2: From Quotation to Self-Transformation 167 Site III: Conclusions 9. Self-Transformation 173 CONTENTS v E“Garçon, get me someone who speaks Tibetan!” 191 Epilogue 195 Appendix 1: Snowball Stemmata 203 Appendix 2: Questions Asked 205 Notes 207 Works Cited 215 General Index 231 Author Index 235 Contents vi ...