Gregory Bateson
Anthropologist, Academic
1904 – 1980
Who was Gregory Bateson?
Gregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. In the 1940s he helped extend systems theory/cybernetics to the social/behavioral sciences, and spent the last decade of his life developing a "meta-science" of epistemology to bring together the various early forms of systems theory developing in various fields of science. Some of his most noted writings are to be found in his books, Steps to an Ecology of Mind and Mind and Nature. Angels Fear was co-authored by his daughter Mary Catherine Bateson.
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- Born
- May 9, 1904
Grantchester - Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Margaret Mead
(1936 - 1950) - Elizabeth Sumner
(1951 - 1957) - Lois Cammack
(1961 - )
- Margaret Mead
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Arts, University of Cambridge
Anthropology
(1927 - 1930) - Charterhouse School
- Master of Arts, University of Cambridge
- Lived in
- California
( - 1980/07/04)
- California
- Died
- Jul 4, 1980
San Francisco
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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