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Everything in Its Path - by Kai T Erikson (Paperback)

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Highlights

  • The 1977 Sorokin Award-winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood.
  • Author(s): Kai T Erikson
  • 288 Pages
  • Social Science, Sociology

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The 1977 Sorokin Award-winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood.

On February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled muddy water burst through a makeshift mining-company dam and roared through Buffalo Creek, a narrow mountain hollow in West Virginia. Following the flood, survivors from a previously tightly knit community were crowded into trailer homes with no concern for former neighborhoods. The result was a collective trauma that lasted longer than the individual traumas caused by the original disaster.

Making extensive use of the words of the people themselves, Erikson details the conflicting tensions of mountain life in general--the tensions between individualism and dependency, self-assertion and resignation, self-centeredness and group orientation--and examines the loss of connection, disorientation, declining morality, rise in crime, rise in out-migration, etc., that resulted from the sudden loss of neighborhood.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.42 Inches (H) x 5.33 Inches (W) x .72 Inches (D)
Weight: .82 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 288
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Sociology
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
Author: Kai T Erikson
Language: English
Street Date: April 15, 1978
TCIN: 84609838
UPC: 9780671240677
Item Number (DPCI): 247-09-7612
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 0.82 pounds
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