Mary catherine bateson personal bio
Mary Catherine Bateson (December 8, 1939 – January 2, 2021) was an American writer and cultural anthropologist.
Mary Catherine Bateson (1939 - 2021) was a..
Mary Catherine Bateson
American anthropologist (1939–2021)
For the English historian, see Mary Bateson (historian).
Mary Catherine Bateson (December 8, 1939 – January 2, 2021) was an American writer and cultural anthropologist.
The daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson,[1] Bateson was a noted author in her field with many published monographs. Among her books was With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, a recounting of her upbringing by two famous parents.
She taught at Harvard, Amherst, and George Mason University.
Mary Catherine Bateson (1939-2021) was a best-selling author, linguist, cultural anthropologist, and daughter of Margaret Mead.Early life and education
Bateson was a graduate of the Brearley School and received her B.A. from Radcliffe in 1960 and her Ph.D. in linguistics and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard in 1963. Her dissertation examined linguistic patterns in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry.[2]
Career
In the mid-1960s, Bateson became a visiting assistant professor of anthropology at the Ateneo de Manila Universit