Everything in Its Path by Kai T Erikson
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.
William R. Erikson is Kai Erikson. Yale University's Kenan Jr Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American Studies He is a former President of the American Sociological Association and has twice received the ASA award for best book released the previous year.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780671240677 |
| ISBN 10 | 0671240676 |
| Title | Everything in Its Path |
| Author | Kai T Erikson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 1978-04-15 |
| Number of pages | 284 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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