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Author Jones, Steven T.

Title The Tribes of Burning Man : How an Experimental City in the Desert Is Shaping the New American Counterculture / by Steven T. Jones, aka Scribe
Edition 1st ed
Published San Francisco, CA : Consortium of Collective Consciousness, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Prologue: setting our intention -- Introduction: welcome home -- Foreword: defining my terms -- Rebirth (2004-05) -- Baptism (2005-06) -- Renewal (2006-07) -- Striving (2007-08) -- Evolving (2008-09) -- Metropolis (2010-the future)
Summary From its anarchic early days to its present dreams of world domination, this is the untold story of Burning Man--the most popular, unique, and enduring countercultural event of recent times in which alternative lifestyle enthusiasts erect a giant statue and construct a temporary city to live in for about a week in the Nevada desert. Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world have made the dusty pilgrimage to Black Rock City to take part in this experiment in participatory art, gift culture, and bacchanalian celebration--and many say their lives were fundamentally changed by the ..
Notes Includes index
Print version record
SUBJECT Burning Man (Festival) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98038288
Burning Man (Festival) fast
Subject Counterculture -- Nevada -- Black Rock Desert
Alternative lifestyles -- Nevada -- Black Rock Desert
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Alternative lifestyles
Counterculture
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Black Rock Desert (Nev.) -- Social life and customs
Subject Nevada -- Black Rock Desert
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781888729450
1888729457
9781888729436
1888729430