Burning Man highlights the primordial human need for ritual
- Written by Dimitris Xygalatas, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut
A wooden effigy of a man is erected each year in Nevada's Black Rock Desert and later burned down.AP Photo/Ron LewisAt the end of each summer, hordes of people flock to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to erect a makeshift city the size of the Italian town of Pisa. They call it Black Rock City. A few days later, they will burn it to the ground,...
