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Everything in its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood - Softcover

Erikson, Kai T.

 
9780671240677: Everything in its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0671240676 ISBN 13: 9780671240677
Verlag: Simon & Schuster, 1978

Inhaltsangabe

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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Kai T. Erikson is an American sociologist known for specializing in the social consequences of catastophic events. He is the author of Everything in its Path, Wayward Puritans, A New Species of Trouble, Catastrophe in the Making, and American Indian Environments.

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Verlag
Simon & Schuster
Erscheinungsdatum
1978
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0671240676
ISBN 13 
9780671240677
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
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