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The Burning Man Festival is a weeklong spasm of radical self-expression held annually just before Labour Day since 1986. In late August 2003, more than 33,000 participants converged in Nevada's Black Rock Desert for this counterculture event staged as an experiment in temporary community. Both Lee Gilmore and Mark Van Proyen have attended Burning Man annually since 1996.

Table of Contents
Introduction; Beyond Belief: The Cults of Burning Man; Fires of the Heart: Ritual, Pilgrimage and Transformation at Burning Man; Participant Observation and the Study of Self: Burning Man as Ethnographic Experience; Welcome to the Black Rock Cafe; Incendiary Incentives: How the Burning Man Organisation Motivates and Manages Volunteers' Kaleidoscopic Cortege: Art Cars at Burning Man and Beyond; Utopia, Social Sculpture and Burning Man; A Tale of Two Surrealities; No Novenas for the Dead: Ritual Action and Communal Memory at the Temple of Tears; Index.

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    Publisher: MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico
    Publication Date: 8/30/2005 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780826333995, 978-0826333995
    ISBN10: 0826333990
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    The Burning Man Festival is a weeklong spasm of radical self-expression held annually just before Labour Day since 1986. In late August 2003, more than 33,000 participants converged in Nevada's Black Rock Desert for this counterculture event staged as an experiment in temporary community. Both Lee Gilmore and Mark Van Proyen have attended Burning Man annually since 1996.

    Table of Contents
    Introduction; Beyond Belief: The Cults of Burning Man; Fires of the Heart: Ritual, Pilgrimage and Transformation at Burning Man; Participant Observation and the Study of Self: Burning Man as Ethnographic Experience; Welcome to the Black Rock Cafe; Incendiary Incentives: How the Burning Man Organisation Motivates and Manages Volunteers' Kaleidoscopic Cortege: Art Cars at Burning Man and Beyond; Utopia, Social Sculpture and Burning Man; A Tale of Two Surrealities; No Novenas for the Dead: Ritual Action and Communal Memory at the Temple of Tears; Index.

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