Theater in a Crowded Fire: Ritual and Spirituality at Burning Man [With DVD]

by Lee Gilmore

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520260880
• ISBN13: 9780520260887
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"