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
