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"Radical Ritual recounts, through interviews with fabled Burning Man personages, the festival's evolution from the first scrap wood bonfire on a San Francisco beach to the week-long extravaganza in Black Rock City. Written from Neil Shister's perspective as a five-time participant, journalist, and student of American culture, Radical Ritual presents Burning Man as vitally, historically important, a significant player in the avant-garde, forging new...

"For those who have and have not been to Burning Man, author Caveat Magister, a longtime writer for Burning Man's blog, answers "why does Burning Man matter?" with interviews with the founders of Burning Man, stories from the playa, and ideas of how to take it back to default reality. Burning Man has grown and expanded into more parts of the world, going from an experiment performed by two families on a public beach to a frontier carved out of a...

In search of ritual: the burning man: Part art project and part primitive ritual, The Burning man, an event held annually in the Black Rock Desert, is documented in this segment. -- "The Reno cure" is a look at the divorce industry in Reno, from it's beginning at the turn of the century, through it's heyday in the 1930's to the present. -- "Last flight of the Sky Crane" is a look at the history of the military helicopter, know[n] as the Sky Crane...

"From vast mechanical creatures to mind-blowing pyrotechnics, the Burning Man Festival is the incubator of some of the most remarkable site-specific outdoor art ever made. With photography from NK Guy, this book documents 16 years of the festival's installations and happenings as models of participatory, collective, and uninhibited expression"--Back cover.