"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.

A re-issue of Gregory Bateson's classic work. It summarizes Bateson's thinking on the subject of the patterns that connect living beings to each other and to their environment.

This is a re-issue of Gregory Bateson's and Mary Catherine Bateson's work, which has been out of print for the past 20 years, 2004 is the G. Bateson centennial and much interest is anticipated for his publications. This work is the final sustained thinking of Bateson. In collaboration with his daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, this volume sets out Bateson's natural history of the relationship between ideas. The book incorporates writing by both father and daughter, including essays written by Bateson in the last years before his death. The book is a unique demonstration of thinking in...

-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.

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.

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)

Nach Geist und Natur. Eine notwendige Einheit hat Gregory Bateson an dem vorliegenden Buch gearbeitet, das er zu Lebzeiten aber nicht mehr zum Abschlu bringen konnte und das von seiner Tochter Mary Catherine fertiggestellt wurde.Ausgehend von dem, was wir ber die biologische Welt wissen, sowie davon, was wir ber das Erkennen zu begreifen vermgen, mchte Bateson erklren, was unter dem Heiligen zu verstehen sein knnte. Neben dem Heiligen spielen zwei weitere integrative Erfahrungsdimensionen eine wichtige Rolle: die des sthetischen und die des Bewutseins. Es ist diese Konstellation von...