Of ordeals and operas: Reflexive ritualizing at the burning man festival

Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 211-226

  Gilmore, Lee ^a  

^a American Academy of Religion   (United States)

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