Steps to an Ecology of Mind, 1st Edition
Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
$33.75
- Paperback
565 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2000
Summary
Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will continue to delight and inform generations of readers.
“This collection amounts to a retrospective exhibition of a working life… . Bateson has come to this position during a career that carried him not only into anthropology, for which he…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226039053 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0226039056 |
| Author: | Gregory Bateson |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 565 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2000 |
| Weight: | 765g |
| Dimensions: | 3mm x 14mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
”[Bateson’s] view of the world, of science, of culture, and of man is vast and challenging. His efforts at synthesis are tantalizingly and cryptically suggestive… .This is a book we should all read and ponder.”
–Roger Keesing “American Anthropologist”“Philosophical depth, conceptual rigor, and an uncanny scientific imagination are the hallmarks of this invaluable collection by one of the most influential minds of this century.”
“This collection amounts to a retrospective exhibition of a working life… . Bateson has come to this position during a career that carried him not only into anthropology, for which he was first trained, but into psychiatry, genetics, and communication theory… . He … examines the nature of the mind, seeing it not as a nebulous something, somehow lodged somewhere in the body of each man, but as a network of interactions relating the individual with his society and his species and with the universe at large.”
–D. W. Harding “New York Review of Books”Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) was born and educated in the United Kingdom, and spent most of his professional life in the United States where he was lecturer and fellow of Kresge College at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among other influential books he authored Naven and Mind and Nature.
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