With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson

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Washington Square Press, 1985 - Biography & Autobiography - 304 pages
A reflection on the author's parents, one a British scientist and the other the anthropologist Margaret Mead.

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Contents

The Aquarium and the Globe
11
Baby Pictures
11
A Household Common and Uncommon
33
Copyright

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Mary Catherine Bateson
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About the author (1985)

Mary Catherine Bateson is a writer and cultural anthropologist. Bateson has written and co-authored many books and articles, and lectures across the country and abroad. She has taught at Harvard, Northeastern University, Amherst College, Spelman College and abroad in the Philippines and in Iran. In 2004 she retired from her position as Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University and is now Professor Emerita. She serves on multiple advisory boards including the National Center on Atmospheric Research and the NSF, dealing with climate change. Mary Catherine Bateson's books in print include Composing a Life, Our Own Metaphor, and Peripheral Visions, as well as a memoir, With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Her latest is Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom (Knopf September 2010). Bateson divides her time between New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

Bibliographic information

TitleWith a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson
AuthorMary Catherine Bateson
Editionreprint
PublisherWashington Square Press, 1985
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedJul 14, 2008
ISBN0671554247, 9780671554248
Length304 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / General
Biography & Autobiography / Social Scientists & Psychologists
  
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