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![]() ![]() Throughout his career, Becker was interested in the relationship between culture and psychology, and his work focused on the ways in which cultural beliefs and values shape individual identity and behavior. The book examines the ways in which human beings try to deny their mortality and the impact of this denial on individual and societal behavior. ![]() After serving in the US army during World War II, Becker attended Syracuse University and then the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his PhD in cultural anthropology in 1960.īecker's most famous work is the book "The Denial of Death," published in 1973, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in General Non-Fiction posthumously. He was born in Massachusetts and grew up in New York City. Ernest Becker (1924-1974) was an American cultural anthropologist and writer. ![]()
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