Description
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 archaeological methods to analyze the various aspects of life and community in and around Burning Man and Black Rock City. With a syncretic approach, 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.
Author: Carolyn L. White
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 04/15/2020
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN13: 9780826361332
ISBN10: 0826361331
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Archaeology
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions | General