false 152435 14 <div>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.<br><br>"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."&#8212;D. W. Harding, <i>New York Review of Books</i> <br><br>"[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."&#8212;Roger Keesing, <i>American Anthropologist</i><br><br>Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) was the author of <i>Naven</i> and <i>Mind and Nature.</i><br><br></div> 147125 1972 Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology total:108|5:48|4:48|3:11|2:1|1:0| 108 467 223 16 5 0 false false Tue Oct 06 21:19:41 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 21:20:25 -0700 2009 The History of Psychiatry An Evaluation of Psychiatric Thought and Practice from Prehistoric Times to the Presentmore...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 10 08:52:45 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 08:59:47 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jul 31 11:59:02 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 12:02:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 03 06:11:50 -0800 2009 Mon Sep 14 04:26:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Apr 05 15:50:49 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 19:11:30 -0700 2009
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