The daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, cultural anthropologist Bateson has long been fascinated by how humans understand, create and adapt to the world in which they live, and in this ...

Mary Catherine Bateson has been dividing her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and the Monadnock region of New Hampshire since she retired in 2002 as Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology ...

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I find I can't get up much enthusiasm for rules," cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead wrote in 1933, in a letter addressed to her female lover, Ruth Benedict, about the tension between her then ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of American anthropologist Margaret Mead's birth. Her groundbreaking studies and down-to-earth style made the academic discipline of anthropology accessible to ...

Mary Catherine Bateson, born to anthropologists in 1939, who spent her life studying the way people live, has died at age 81. Bateson’s career took her around the world before being asked by Hillary ...