Dominic Green’s review of “Tripping on Utopia” by Benjamin Breen (Books, Feb. 10) goes beyond even the book in his claims about the lives and work of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. As directors of ...

In search of the impertinent question : an overview of Bateson's theory of communication / Robert Rieber -- A reflection on Bateson's view of moral and national character / David Bakan -- The ...

Pioneering anthropologist Margaret Mead came of age in a time of enormous change and uncertainty. In the aftermath of World War I, as technologies like the radio and automobile began to take hold, ...

Mary Catherine Bateson, an anthropologist and writer of wide-ranging interests whose books included a memoir about her parents, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, and another book ...

"The schizophrenic has ‘learned’ to ‘live in a universe where the sequences of events are such that his unconventional communication habits will be in some sense appropriate’. His ‘disorder’ is part ...