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Burning Man highlights the primordial human need for ritual

  • Written by Dimitris Xygalatas, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut
Burning Man highlights the primordial human need for ritualA wooden effigy of a man is erected each year in Nevada's Black Rock Desert and later burned down.AP Photo/Ron Lewis

At 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,...

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