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Anthropologist

Ernest Becker

American cultural anthropologist whose The Denial of Death (1973) argued that much of culture is a defense against the fear of dying. One essay so far.

Essays
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Death as the way life continues in The Fountain

Three men chase the same tree across the centuries. Aronofsky’s answer to the oldest story we tell is that death is how life continues.
Jan 2023