ABSTRACT
Mirror for Man, written with the wider public in mind, reminds us that activities now termed "public anthropology" existed long before the phrase was coined. By all accounts, Clyde May Maben Kluckhohn was a remarkable man. In their obituary published in the American Anthropologist, Talcott Parsons and Evon Z. Vogt emphasize Kluckhohn's "creative eclecticism". Ironically, the success of works like Mirror for Man may have led to the sharp decline in public anthropology in the decades following the war. Applied anthropology skyrocketed during World War II, when an estimated three-quarters of all American anthropologists worked in some way for the war effort; by mid-1943, "virtually every wartime agency had an anthropologist or two on staff". Ironically, the success of works like Mirror for Man may have led to the sharp decline in public anthropology in the decades following the war.
