Steps to an ecology of mind; collected essays in anthropology, psychiatry, evolution, and epistemology

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 the nature of the mind, seeing it not as a nebulous something, somehow lodged somewhere in the body of each man, but as a network of interactions relating the individual with his society and his species and with the universe at large."—D. W. Harding, New York Review of Books "[Bateson's] view of the world, of science, of culture, and of man is vast and challenging. His efforts at synthesis are tantalizingly and cryptically suggestive. . . .This is a book we should all read and ponder."—Roger Keesing, American Anthropologist Preface / Mark Engle -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Science Of Mind And Order -- Part I: Metalogues -- Part Ii: Form And Pattern In Anthropology -- Part Iii: Form And Pathology In Relationship -- Part Iv: Biology And Evolution -- Part V: Epistemology And Ecology -- Part Vi: Crisis In The Ecology Of Mind. The Published Works Of Gregory Bateson, Prepared By Vern Carroll: P. 506.