Afterburn : Reflections on Burning Man

List of Figures viii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1(14) Lee Gilmore Mark Van Proyen Beyond Belief: The Cults of Burning Man 15(28) Erik Davis Fires of the Heart: Ritual, Pilgrimage, and Transformation at Burning Man 43(22) Lee Gilmore Participant Observation and the Study of Self: Burning Man as Ethnographic Experience 65(22) Jeremy Hockett Welcome to the Black Rock Cafe 87(22) Robert V. Kozinets John F. Sherry Jr. Incendiary Incentives: How the Burning Man Organization Motivates and Manages Volunteers 109(22) Katherine K. Chen Kaleidoscopic Cortege: Art Cars at Burning Man, and Beyond 131(20) JoAnne Northrup Utopia, Social Sculpture, and Burning Man 151(22) Allegra Fortunati A Tale of Two Surrealities 173(22) Mark Van Proyen No Novenas for the Dead: Ritual Action and Communal Memory at the Temple of Tears 195(20) Sarah M. Pike Contributors 215(2) Index 217