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...
Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With ...
"Naven" is the name of a peculiar ritual practiced by Iatmul, a head-hunting tribe of New Guinea.Th e ceremony is performed to congratulate members of the tribe upon the completion of notable accomplishments, among which homicide ranks highest. Ordinarily this tribe insists upon an extreme contrast between the sexes, but in the "naven" ceremony, tranvestitism and ritual homosexuality are represented. The "naven" serves in this book as a motive around which the author has constructed one of the most influential works of field anthropology ever written.
"Naven" is the name of a peculiar ritual practiced by Iatmul, a head-hunting tribe of New Guinea.Th e ceremony is performed to congratulate members of...
-Naven- is the name of a peculiar ritual practiced by Iatmul, a head-hunting tribe of New Guinea.Th e ceremony is performed to congratulate members of the tribe upon the completion of notable accomplishments, among which homicide ranks highest. Ordinarily this tribe insists upon an extreme contrast between the sexes, but in the -naven- ceremony, tranvestitism and ritual homosexuality are represented. The -naven- serves in this book as a motive around which the author has constructed one of the most influential works of field anthropology ever written.
-Naven- is the name of a peculiar ritual practiced by Iatmul, a head-hunting tribe of New Guinea.Th e ceremony is performed to congratulate members of...
In diesem Buch expliziert Gregory Bateson seine Erkenntnistheorie, die auf der allgemeinen Annahme beruht, da evolutionre Prozesse wie Prozesse individuellen Lernens stochastische Prozesse sind. Bateson zeigt, wie diese beiden auf verschiedenen Ebenen der logischen Typisierung sich bewegenden Prozesse der Evolution und des Lernens zusammenpassen und ihre Einheit - eben die von Geist und Natur - notwendig ist.
In diesem Buch expliziert Gregory Bateson seine Erkenntnistheorie, die auf der allgemeinen Annahme beruht, da evolutionre Prozesse wie Prozesse indivi...
Batesons Werk ist von einer Variationsbreite und Relevanz, die allen einzelwissenschaftlichen Schranken und Beschrnktheiten der akademischen Forschung hohnspricht. Bateson hat Daten, Erkenntnisse und Erfahrungen aus Biologie, Soziologie, Linguistik, Geschichte, Psychologie, Kybernetik und Kunst verglichen und ihre Strukturen und Entwicklungsprozesse analysiert. (Fritz B. Simon)
Batesons Werk ist von einer Variationsbreite und Relevanz, die allen einzelwissenschaftlichen Schranken und Beschrnktheiten der akademischen Forschung...