With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson

FROM THE PUBLISHER

In With a Daughter's Eye, writer and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson looks back on her extraordinary childhood with two of the world's legendary anthropologists, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. This deeply human and illuminating portrait sheds new light on her parents' prodigious achievements and stands alone as an important contribution for scholars of Mead and Bateson. But for readers everywhere, this engaging, poignant, and powerful book is first and foremost a singularly candid memoir of a unique family by the only person who could have written it.

Author Biography: Mary Catherine Bateson is Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University. She received an undergraduate degree from Radcliffe and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. She has written and coauthored numerous books on life history, lectures internationally, and is president of the Institute for Intercultural Studies in New York City. She divides her time between New Hampshire and Virginia.

SYNOPSIS

Previous editions are cited in Books for College Libraries, 3rd ed. Readers interested in Margaret Mead will enjoy her daughter, Bateson's (anthropology and English, George Mason U., Fairfax, Virginia) autobiography, newly reprinted and affordable in paperback. Bateson writes with candor and thoughtfulness as she reminisces of the foreign lands in which she lived, the curious life of being raised by scientists, and above all, the large personality of Mead.

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FROM THE CRITICS

San Francisco Chronicle

A beautifully written book...Remarkably honest, rich in poetry, yet, at the same time, full of 'longing and anger.'

Natural History