AfterBurn
Subtitle: reflections on burning man
By: edited by Lee Gilmore and Mark Van Proyen.
Contributors: Gilmore, Lee, 1969-; Van Proyen, Mark.
Series: CounterCulture series
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780826333995
Subjects: Performance art -- Nevada -- Black Rock Desert; Counterculture -- Nevada -- Black Rock Desert; Black Rock Desert (Nev.) -- Social life and customs
Other titles: After burn.
Description: "The Burning Man Festival is a week-long spasm of radical self-expression held annually just before Labor Day. The climax of the festival comes when attendees erupt into cheers and applause at the burning of a forty-foot-tall human effigy described as "part pre-technological idol and part post-technological puppet."" "AfterBurn features ten essayists, each addressing a specific aspect of the festival, from the recruitment and management of volunteers, to the artistic and cultural context of the modern conception of Utopia."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beyond belief : the cults of Burning Man / Erik Davis; title: Fires of the heart : ritual, pilgrimage, and transformation at Burning Man / Lee Gilmore; title: Participant observation and the study of self : Burning Man as ethnographic experience / Jeremy Hockett; title: Welcome to the Black Rock Café / Robert V. Kozinets and John F. Sherry Jr.; title: Incendiary incentives : how the Burning Man organization motivates and manages volunteers / Katherine K. Chen; title: Kaleidoscopic cortege : art cars at Burning Man, and beyond / JoAnne Northrup; title: Utopia, social sculpture, and Burning Man / Allegra Fortunati; title: A tale of two surrealities / Mark Van Proyen; title: No novenas for the dead : ritual action and communal memory at the temple of tears / Sarah M. Pike.