Title The archaeology of Burning Man : the rise and fall of Black Rock City / Carolyn L. White

Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 262 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Archaeologies of landscape in the Americas series Archaeologies of landscape in the Americas series. Contents Black Rock City : a description of the world -- Thinking the world : social space, the accursed share, and meshworks -- The rise of the city -- Infrastructure at Burning Man -- Households at Burning Man -- Theme camps -- Village life -- The fall of the city -- Epilogue : the active site of Black Rock City Summary "Each August staff and volunteers begin to construct Black Rock City, a temporary city located in the hostile and haunting Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada. Every September nearly seventy thousand people occupy the city for Burning Man, an event that creates the sixth largest population center in Nevada. By mid-September the infrastructure that supported the community is fully dismantled, and by October the land on which the city lay is scrubbed of evidence of its existence. The Archaeology of Burning Man examines this process of building, occupation, and destruction. For nearly a decade Carolyn L. White has employed archeological methods-including mapping, surveying, photographing, interviewing, and participant observation--to analyze the various aspects of life and community in and around Burning Man and Black Rock City. With a syncretic approach that draws on scholarship in archaeology, cultural anthropology, geography, and philosophy, this work in active site archaeology provides both a theoretical basis and a practical demonstration of the potential of this new field to reexamine the most fundamental conceptions in the social sciences"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 03, 2020) SUBJECT Burning Man (Festival) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98038288 Burning Man (Festival) fast Subject Archaeology -- Fieldwork -- Nevada -- Black Rock Desert Human settlements -- Nevada -- Black Rock Desert Archaeology -- Fieldwork Human settlements Nevada -- Black Rock Desert Form Electronic book LC no. 2019037189 ISBN 9780826361349 082636134X

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