Afterburn: Reflections on Burning Man

by Lee M. Gilmore

Book Overview

The Burning Man Festival is a weeklong spasm of radical self-expression held annually just before Labor 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.

The participants gather to rid themselves of the conventional structures of their life and to sample the alternatives in hundreds of theme camps. The climax...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826333990
• ISBN13: 9780826333995
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"