![]() His efforts at synthesis are tantalizingly and cryptically suggestive.This is a book we should all read and ponder. Harding, New York Review of Books " view of the world, of science, of culture, and of man is vast and challenging. ![]() 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. 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. "This collection amounts to a retrospective exhibition of a working life. ![]() ![]() 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. Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. ![]()
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