![]() His efforts at synthesis are tantalizingly and cryptically suggestive.This is a book we should all read and ponder. " 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. ![]() 'Nora Bateson presents viewers not only with an intellectually challenging and inspiring work of art, but also with a glimpse of evanescent hope.' Marilyn Wedge. important film.' Rex Weyler - Co-Founder, Greenpeace International. "This collection amounts to a retrospective exhibition of a working life. 'An Ecology of Mind is a spell-binding, lyrical, and very. This book addresses Bateson's thesis that in scientific research one starts from two beginnings, each with its own authority: the observations cannot be denied, and the. 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. Bateson is concerned with four sorts of subject matter: anthropology, psychiatry, biological evolution and genetics, and the new epistemology from systems theory and ecology. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. ![]()
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