to crosspost from the anthropology tribe:

i met a man in goa this year who said his son was in the ph.d program at stanford and was writing about burning man. you might try poking around on the stanford website to find him.

also, a friend of mine from uchicago, tony d'andrea, wrote his thesis about nomadic counterculture in ibiza and goa, and it will soon be forthcoming from routledge. his website is: home.uchicago.edu/~afdandre/ . you'll probably find some of his work to be relevant.

-a

Larissa. Sorry.

I have a related request - I'm doing an "Information Behavior" study (librarian speak for ethnography...) on research methods and I'm focusing on people who go to/plan to go to burning man.

I want to know primarily about people's experiences getting prepared for their first and second times, but also how more experienced burners find new ideas to improve/enhance/change their time there.

So, where do you find your information? and how much time and effort do you tend to put into it? Do you talk to people? read websites? read books? articles? do nothing and hope for the best? a combination of these?

And, how do you find out about what you have to learn? For instance, did someone tell you that you need a dust mask and then you researched the best dust masks? Or did you not hear about this and have to make something on the fly when a dust storm struck?