• Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist...
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    Catherine Bateson (December 8, 1939 – January 2, 2021) was an American writer and cultural anthropologist. The daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, Bateson...
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  • opting out of the situation. Double bind theory was first stated by Gregory Bateson and his colleagues in the 1950s, in a theory on the origins of schizophrenia...
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  • the totality of all opposites. In his Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Gregory Bateson adopts and extends Jung's distinction between pleroma (the non-living...
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  • term was introduced by anthropologist Gregory Bateson and has been applied to various fields. Gregory Bateson developed the concept of schismogenesis...
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  • explain ecosystems, then later to social sciences. Anthropologist Gregory Bateson is the most influential and earliest propagator of systems theory in...
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    Gregory Bateson with whom she had a daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, who would also become an anthropologist. She readily acknowledged that Bateson was...
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  • contradictory to that verbal communication.[citation needed] Gregory Bateson invented the term in 1951. Bateson suggested the significance of metacommunication in...
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    (according to Cock). Their son was the anthropologist and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson. Bateson has been described as a "very militant" atheist. In June 1894 he...
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  • systems science include Russell Ackoff, Ruzena Bajcsy, Béla H. Bánáthy, Gregory Bateson, Anthony Stafford Beer, Peter Checkland, Barbara Grosz, Brian Wilson...
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    short documentary film shot by the anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson during their research on Bali in the 1930s. It shows female dancers...
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    information theorist Claude Shannon, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, and others. Wiener is credited as being one of the first to theorize...
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  • of William Blake. His mentor was the anthropologist and philosopher Gregory Bateson. At Harvard he worked with Jerome Bruner and Irven DeVore. He has taught...
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    and information, focuses on forms and the patterns that connect" (Gregory Bateson). The Ancient Greek term κυβερνητικός (kubernētikos, '(good at) steering')...
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  • Professor of Anthropology at McGill University and winner of the 2014 Gregory Bateson Prize. He is best known for the book, How Forests Think. His 2013 book...
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  • Wilse Bateson (1901–1978), English literary scholar Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), British anthropologist (son of William Bateson) Jack Bateson (born 1994)...
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  • Steps to an Ecology of Mind is a collection of Gregory Bateson's short works over his long and varied career. Subject matter includes essays on anthropology...
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  • systems thinking, and based on the theoretical work of Roger Barker, Gregory Bateson, Humberto Maturana and others. Groups and individuals are considered...
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    Bali . Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead; Bathing Babies in Three Cultures. Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead; Karba's First Years. Gregory Bateson, Margaret...
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  • intensified personification of their own emotional and social inadequacy". Gregory Bateson considered sometimes "the identified patient sacrifices himself to...
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  • tension triggers the next patellar reflex.) — Gregory Bateson, A Sacred Unity, p. 85 In the text, Bateson goes on to describe induction of clonus as a...
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  • first volume was written by Virginia Satir and the introduction by Gregory Bateson. According to psychiatrist Robert S. Spitzer, after months of careful...
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    representation, though not created or presented for that purpose. For example, Gregory Bateson defines "information" as a "difference that makes a difference". If...
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  • a laboratory to research dolphins. The director of the laboratory, Gregory Bateson, allowed her to observe dolphin behavior, and was impressed by her...
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  • The Bateson Project (1953-1963) was the name given to a ground-breaking collaboration organized by Gregory Bateson which was responsible for some of the...
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    anthropology Salvage ethnography Tribal art/Folk art Major theorists Tim Asch Gregory Bateson Franz Boas Pierre Bourdieu John Collier Frances Densmore Robert J....
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    deemed the "observer effect" by Gregory Bateson, who was perhaps unaware of the dogma Rouch was attempting to violate. Bateson, as one of the earliest to write...
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    being human in relation with other species. The book was awarded the Gregory Bateson Prize and the Victor Turner Prize. Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet:...
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    1940s and early 1950s, anthropologists such as Hortense Powdermaker, Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead (Trance and Dance in Bali, 1952) and Mead and Rhoda...
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    to the work of Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Ilya Prigogine, Gregory Bateson and others in proposing a new, systems-based scientific approach for...
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