Steps to an Ecology of Mind

Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology

• Author(s): Gregory Bateson,
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Pages: 533
• ISBN_10: 0226039056
  ISBN_13: 9780226039053
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Medical / Psychiatry / General , Philosophy / Epistemology , Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern , Psychology / General , Science / Life Sciences / Evolution , Social Science / General , Social Science / Anthropology / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Archaeology ,

Description:... 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