{"product_id":"everything-in-its-path-9780671240677","title":"Everything in Its Path","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kai T. Erikson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 1977 Sorokin Award-winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaking 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.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45114282737815,"sku":"9780671240677","price":1391.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780671240677.webp?v=1767269501","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/everything-in-its-path-9780671240677","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}