Mirror for Man

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Mirror for Man is a 1949 book by Clyde K.M. Kluckhohn, an American professor of anthropology at Harvard University. The book explores fundamental human values that are common across diverse cultures, despite their differing customs. Kluckhohn, known for his ethnographic studies of the Navajo, presented his basic ideas about culture in this work, which won a prize for the best popular science book that year. The book touches on the idea that culture conditions an individual's psychological makeup, influencing how they perceive and process information.12

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…about culture are contained in Mirror for Man, which won the McGraw-Hill prize for the best popular work in science in 1949. He averred that, despite wide differences in customs, there are apparently fundamental human values common to the diverse cultures of the world.
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…about culture are contained in Mirror for Man, which won the McGraw-Hill prize for the best popular work in science in 1949. He averred that, despite wide differences in customs, there are apparently fundamental human values common to the diverse cultures of the world.
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