AfterBurn; reflections on burning man.0826333990 AfterBurn; reflections on burning man. Ed. by Lee Gilmore and Mark Van Proyen. U. of New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). Press 2005 221 pages $19.95 Paperback Counterculture coun·ter·cul·ture n. A culture, especially of young people, with values or lifestyles in opposition to those of the established culture. coun series NX510 Whether it is hailed as a staircase to heaven or condemned as a mall of the weird, the Burning Man Festival has been a source of discussion and debate since its inception in 1986. Set as an anti- commercialism alternative temporary community, the festival has attracted up to 30,000 seekers of cultural, artistic and spiritual enlightenment, and these nine critical reviews offer up some of the reasons they faithfully attend. The essays describe the cults that have formed around the Burning Man Festival, the factors of ritual, pilgrimage and transformation that attract them, the festival as an ethnographic eth·nog·ra·phy n. The branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of specific human cultures. eth·nog experience of the self, the business end of a cultural experience, volunteerism, art cars, utopias and social sculpture, the surreal sur·re·al adj. 1. Having qualities attributed to or associated with surrealism: "Even with most facilities shut down ... , and community memory. Of course there are photographs of the festival and its participants, along with visuals of the alternate realities Alternate reality is usually a synonym for a Parallel universe. It may also refer to:
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