CAROLYN L. WHITE

The Archaeology of Burning Man
​The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City
​by Carolyn L. White

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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 methods to analyze the various aspects of life and community in and around Burning Man and Black Rock City. With a syncretic approach, this work in active-site archaeology provides both a theoretical basis and a practical demonstration of the potential of this new field to reexamine the most fundamental conceptions in the social sciences.
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Interview with Carolyn L. White on Life Elsewhere with Norman B. March 29, 2020.​

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Interview with Carolyn L. White on KFAI, FM 90.3, Northern Sun News with Don Olson, a one hour public affairs program covering a wide variety of topics, April 9, 2020.
Interview with Carolyn White by Geoffrey Riley on Jefferson Public Radio, April 15, 2020.
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Interview with Carolyn L. White on The Tom Sumner Program, April 16, 2020.
Carolyn White discusses Archaeology of #BurningMan on #ConversationsLIVE with Cyrus Webb.
​Wade Rathke talks with Carolyn White on Wade's World, WAMF, New Orleans. 
Interview with Carolyn White by Bob Barrett on The Best of Our Knowledge, WAMC.
Interview ​with Carolyn White by Shelly Irwin on WGVU, 88.5FM, The Morning Show.
Carolyn White on Conversations with Charlie Dyer, on ihubradio.com.




​Carolyn L. White  is the Director of Preservation Studies and Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. She has written several books and numerous articles on material culture, art, and archaeology. Her research has been funded through various agencies including the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fulbright, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 
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