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Steps to an Ecology of Mind Collected Essays in Anthropology Gregory Bateson

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Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Original Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
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Intended Audience
Adults
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ISBN
9780226039053

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226039056
ISBN-13
9780226039053
eBay Product ID (ePID)
428225

Product Key Features

Book Title
Steps to an Ecology of Mind : Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
Number of Pages
565 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Epistemology, Life Sciences / Evolution, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Psychiatry / General, Anthropology / General
Publication Year
2000
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Philosophy, Social Science, Science, Psychology, Medical
Author
Gregory Bateson
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.1 in
Item Weight
24.2 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in

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Trade
LCCN
99-045031
Dewey Edition
19
Dewey Decimal
306
Table Of Content
Foreword by Mary Catherine Bateson, 1999 Foreword, 1971 Introduction: The Science of Mind and Order Part I: Metalogues Metalogue: Why Do Things Get in a Muddle Metalogue: Why Do Frenchmen? Metalogue: About Games and Being Serious Metalogue: How Much Do You Know? Metalogue: Why Do Things Have Outlines? Metalogue: Why a Swan? Metalogue: What Is an Instinct? Part II: Form and Pattern in Anthropology Culture Contact and Schismogenesis Experiments in Thinking about Observed Ethnological Material Morale and National Character Bali: The Value System of a Steady State Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art Comment on Part II Part III: Form and Pathology in Relationship Social Planning and the Concept of Deutero-Learning A Theory of Play and Fantasy Epidemiology of a Schizophrenia Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia The Group Dynamics of Schizophrenia Minimal Requirements for a Theory of Schizophrenia Double Bind, 1969 The Logical Categories of Learning and Communication The Cybernetics of "Self": A Theory of Alcoholism Comment on Part III Part IV: Biology and Evolution On Empty-Headedness among Biologists and State Boards of Education The Role of Somatic Change in Evolution Problems in Cetacean and Other Mammalian Communication A Re-examination of "Bateson's Rule" Comments on Part IV Part V: Epistemology and Ecology Cybernetic Explanation Redundancy and Coding Conscious Purpose versus Nature Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation Form, Substance and Difference Comment on Part V Part VI: Crisis in the Ecology of Mind Form Versailles to Cybernetics Pathologies of Epistemology The Roots of Ecological Crisis Ecology and Flexibility in Urban Civilization Index
Synopsis
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, 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, 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
LC Classification Number
GN6.B3 2000

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  • by hfcamp
    25 Oct, 2017

    And what a mind it is

    Reading about the author through his essays is compelling alone. What a career! Only a very curious mind travels through so many areas at such depth. Perhaps the one thing that stuck with me most was Bateson's sense that he had never really helped a alcoholic recover. He wonders whether it was the sober patient's insanity that caused them to drink in order to recover, at least a little, both sanity and acceptance from others. It is not an easy book but quite worthwhile. A friend asked me why I started reading Bateson here and not in other more approachable works. I admitted it was just by chance.

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