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

Everything in Its Path - by  Kai T Erikson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The 1977 Sorokin Award-winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood. <p/>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. <p/>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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