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

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  • ISBN: 0810204479
  • ISBN: 9780810204478
  • ISBN: 0345273702
  • ISBN: 9780345273703
  • Physical Description: xxviii, 545 pages illustrations 22 cm.
  • Publisher: San Francisco, Chandler Pub. Co. [1972]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
"The published works of Gregory Bateson, prepared by Vern Carroll": pages 514-525.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part I. Metalogues -- Why do things get in a muddle -- Why do Frenchmen? -- About games and being serious -- How much do you know? -- Why do things have outlines? -- Why a swan? -- What is an instinct? -- Part II. Form and pattern in anthropology -- Culture contact and schismogenesis -- Experiments in thinking about observed ethnological material -- Morale and national character -- Bali : The value system of a steady state -- Style, grace, and information in primitive art -- Comment on Part II -- Part III. Form and pathology in relationship -- Social planning and the concept of Deutero-Learning -- A theory of play and fantasy -- Epidemiology of a schizophrenia -- Toward a theory of schizophrenia -- The group dynamics of schizophrenia -- Minimal requirements for a theory of schizophrenia -- Double bind, 1969 -- The logical categories of learning and communication -- The cybernetics of "Self" : a theory of alcoholism -- Comment on Part III -- Part IV. Biology and evolution -- On empty-headedness among biologists and State Boards of Education -- The role of somatic change in evolution -- Problems in Cetacean and other mammalian communication -- A re-examination of "Bateson's rule" -- Comments on Part IV -- Part V. Epistemology and ecology -- Cybernetic explanation -- Redundancy and coding -- Conscious purpose versus nature -- Effects of conscious purpose on human adaptation -- Form, substance and difference -- Comment on Part V -- Part VI. Crisis in the ecology of mind -- From Versailles to cybernetics -- Pathologies of epistemoloogy -- The roots of ecological crisis -- Ecology and flexability in urban civilization -- The public work of Gregory Bateson.
Subject:
Anthropology.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Psychiatry.
Evolution.
Anthropology, Cultural.
Biological Evolution.
Ecology.
Schizophrenic Psychology.
Thinking.
Genre:
Collected Works.

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