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Article: Becker, Ernest
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- Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
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Becker, Ernest
The anthropologist Ernest Becker is well-known for his thesis that individuals are terrorized by the knowledge of their own mortality and thus seek to deny it in various ways. Correspondingly, according to Becker, a main function of a culture is to provide ways to engage successfully in death denial.
Becker was born on September 27, 1924, in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Jewish immigrants. His first publication,
Zen: A Rational Critique
(1961), was a version of his doctoral dissertation at Syracuse University, where he pursued graduate studies in cultural anthropology before becoming a writer and professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, ...
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Article: Becker Pulls out after Death of Manager
Xinhua English Newswire;
August 18, 1997 ;
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...Boris Becker pulled out of the 328,000 ... tournament at Boston following the death of his manager Axel Meyer ... received a call from one of Becker's agents on Monday announcing ... year-aged Meyer-Wolden, Becker's manager since 1993, died ...
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