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'''GREGORY BATESON''' was born in 1904, the son of William Bateson, a leading
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British biologist and a pioneering geneticist. Resisting family pressures to follow
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in his father's footsteps, he completed his degree in anthropology instead of
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the natural sciences, and left England to do field work in New Guinea. It was
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|caption = Mead with Gregory Bateson, late 1930s (Photograph by C. H. Waddington).
on his second trip there, in 1956, that he met his fellow anthropologist [[Margaret Mead]], whom he later married; their only child, Mary Catherine Bateson,
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is also an anthropologist. Bateson and Mead were divorced in 1950, but they
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|birth_place = Grantchester, UK
continued to collaborate professionally and maintained their friendship until
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|death_date = {{Death date and age|1980|4|14|1901|5|9|mf=y}}
Mead's death in 1978.
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|death_place = San Francisco, US
In the years to follow, Bateson became a visiting professor of anthropology
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at Harvard (1947); was appointed research associate at the Langley Porrer
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Neuropsychiatric Institute in San Francisco; worked as Ethnologist at the Palo
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'''GREGORY BATESON''' was born in 1904, the son of William Bateson, a leading British biologist and a pioneering geneticist. Resisting family pressures to follow in his father's footsteps, he completed his degree in anthropology instead of the natural sciences, and left England to do field work in New Guinea. It was on his second trip there, in 1956, that he met his fellow anthropologist [[Margaret Mead]], whom he later married; their only child, Mary Catherine Bateson, is also an anthropologist. Bateson and Mead were divorced in 1950, but they continued to collaborate professionally and maintained their friendship until Mead's death in 1978.
Alto Veterans Administration Hospital (where he developed the double-bind
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In the years to follow, Bateson became a visiting professor of anthropology at Harvard (1947); was appointed research associate at the Langley Porrer Neuropsychiatric Institute in San Francisco; worked as Ethnologist at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital (where he developed the double-bind theory of schizophrenia and formulated a new theory of learning). He worked with dolphins at the Oceanographic Institute in Hawaii and taught ar the University of Hawaii. In 1972 he joined the faculty of the University of California at Santa Cruz.
theory of schizophrenia and formulated a new theory of learning). He worked
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with dolphins at the Oceanographic Institute in Hawaii and taught ar the University
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==Legacy==
of Hawaii. In 1972 he joined the faculty of the University of California
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The legacy of Gregory Bateson was reintroduced to new audiences by filmmaker and daughter Nora Bateson, with the release of 'An Ecology of Mind' (2011), a documentary that premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
at Santa Cruz.
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==Documentary film==
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'Trance and Dance in Bali', a short documentary film shot by cultural anthropologist [[Margaret Mead]] and Gregory Bateson in the 1930s, but it was not released until 1952. In 1999 the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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==Links==
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Bateson Bateson on Wikipedia]

Revision as of 07:52, 25 October 2013


Mead with Gregory Bateson, late 1930s (Photograph by C. H. Waddington).
Born May 9, 1904(1904-05-09)
Grantchester, UK
Died April 14, 1980(1980-04-14) (aged 78)
San Francisco, US

GREGORY BATESON was born in 1904, the son of William Bateson, a leading British biologist and a pioneering geneticist. Resisting family pressures to follow in his father's footsteps, he completed his degree in anthropology instead of the natural sciences, and left England to do field work in New Guinea. It was on his second trip there, in 1956, that he met his fellow anthropologist Margaret Mead, whom he later married; their only child, Mary Catherine Bateson, is also an anthropologist. Bateson and Mead were divorced in 1950, but they continued to collaborate professionally and maintained their friendship until Mead's death in 1978. In the years to follow, Bateson became a visiting professor of anthropology at Harvard (1947); was appointed research associate at the Langley Porrer Neuropsychiatric Institute in San Francisco; worked as Ethnologist at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital (where he developed the double-bind theory of schizophrenia and formulated a new theory of learning). He worked with dolphins at the Oceanographic Institute in Hawaii and taught ar the University of Hawaii. In 1972 he joined the faculty of the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Legacy

The legacy of Gregory Bateson was reintroduced to new audiences by filmmaker and daughter Nora Bateson, with the release of 'An Ecology of Mind' (2011), a documentary that premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

Documentary film

'Trance and Dance in Bali', a short documentary film shot by cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson in the 1930s, but it was not released until 1952. In 1999 the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Links