Bateson Gregory. Steps to an Ecology of Mind. Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology

Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc., 1987. — 361 p. — ISBN10: 0876689500; ISBN13: 9780876689509.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.Metalogues.
Form and Pattern in Anthropology.
Form and Pathology in Relationship.
Biology and Evolution.
Epistemology and Ecology.
Crisis in the Ecology of Mind.