Steps to an Ecology of Mind : Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology Paperback / softback
by Gregory Bateson
Paperback / softback
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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 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 "[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 Â
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:565 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:15/04/2000
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- ISBN:9780226039053
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:565 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:15/04/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226039053
