Carolyn L. White

The Archaeology of Burning Man

The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City

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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 meth… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8263-6134-9
EAN: 9780826361349
Produktnummer: 34254434
Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 10'392 KB

Über den Autor

Carolyn L. White is a professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she holds the Mamie Kleberg Chair in Historic Preservation and is the director of the Anthropology Research Museum. She is also the editor of The Materiality of Individuality: Archaeological Studies of Individual Lives.