Upside-Down Gods : Gregory Bateson's World of Difference /

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"This intellectual biography covers the whole trajectory of Bateson's career, from his first anthropological work alongside Margaret Mead through the continuing relevance of his late forays into biosemiotics. Harris-Jones shows how the sum of Bateson's thinking across numerous fields...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harries-Jones, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bateson, Gregory, > 1904-1980.
Anthropologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Anthropologists > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: The enigma of context
  • Culture: A first look at difference
  • A science of decency
  • Cybernetic loops
  • Why we see in outlines
  • The bonds that bind
  • Interlude: From cultural structures to structure in ecology
  • Part II: Nature's balance
  • Pattern and process
  • A postgenomic view
  • Toward the semiosphere
  • Ecological aesthetics as metapattern.

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