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

Name: Everything in Its Path - by Kai T Erikson (Paperback)
Brand: Simon & Schuster
SKU: 84609838
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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.
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.

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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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