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Every summer, thousands gather from around the world in the blistering heat of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert for the seven-day celebration of art, community, and fire known as Burning Man. Culminating in the spectacular incineration of a wooden effigy, this festival is grand-scale theater for self-expression, personal transformation, eclectic spirituality, communal bonding, and cultural renewal. In this engrossing ethnography of the Burning Man phenomenon, Lee Gilmore explores why "burners" come in
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- Author
- Gilmore, Lee;
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520945531
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Religion, Art, Anthropology
- Rating
- 3.42 / 5 (57 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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