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Gregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. His writings include Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979).
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Born 9 May 1904 · Died 4 July 1980 · Q314252
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“s account of a culture was always and fundamentally shaped by whatever theory the anthropologist employed to define and analyse the data. To think otherwise, stated Bateson, was to be guilty of what Alfred North Whitehead called the”
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Psychology Today: Exploring Gregory Bateson's Impact on Systemic Thinking
Awarded California Hall of Fame (2012).
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His daughter Mary Catherine Bateson published a joint biography of her parents (Bateson and Margaret Mead)
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Died 1980-07-04.
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At age 76, in the guest house of the San Francisco Zen Center
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“Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion.”
In opposition to the university's work on nuclear weapons
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Was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Joined the faculty of Kresge College at the University of California, Santa Cruz
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They had one daughter, Nora Bateson (born 1968).
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After which Bateson was married a third time, to therapist and social worker Lois Cammack (born 1928), in 1961
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Became a naturalised citizen of the United States
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In Palo Alto, Bateson and his colleagues Donald Jackson, Jay Haley, and John Weakland articulated a related theory of schizophrenia stemming from double bind situations
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Married Elizabeth "Betty" Sumner, the daughter of the Episcopalian Bishop of Oregon, Walter Taylor Sumner
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They had a son, John Sumner Bateson (1951–2015), as well as twins who died shortly after birth in 1953.
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Bateson separated from Mead in 1947, and they were divorced in 1950.
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1946).
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Bateson and Mead returned to the Sepik River, and settled in the village of Tambunum, where Bateson had spent three days in the 1920s
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Titled Naven: A Survey of the Problems Suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe Drawn from Three Points of View (Cambridge University Press)
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Bateson lectured in linguistics at the University of Sydney
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With a trip to New Guinea, spurred by his mentor A
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And continued at Cambridge from 1927 to 1929
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Born 1904-05-09.
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