Bali: The Value System of a Steady State (01949, Social Structure: Studies Presented to A.R.Morale and National Character (01942, Civilian Morale, Watson).Experiments in Thinking About Observed Ethnological Material (01940, Seventh Conference on Methods in Philosophy and the Sciences 01941, Philosophy of Science, Vol.Culture Contact and Schismogenesis (01935, Man, Article 199, Vol.Part II is a collection of anthropological writings, many of which were written while he was married to Margaret Mead. Part II: Form and Pattern in Anthropology What Is an Instinct? (01969, Sebeok, Approaches to Animal Communication).Why Do Things Have Outlines? (01953, ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol.How Much Do You Know? (01953, ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol.About Games and Being Serious (01953, ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol.Why Do Frenchmen? (01951, Impulse 01953, ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol.Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (01948, previously unpublished).Notably, the history of evolutionary theory is inevitably a metalogue between man and nature, in which the creation and interaction of ideas must necessarily exemplify evolutionary process. Only some of the conversations here presented achieve this double format. This conversation should be such that not only do the participants discuss the problem but the structure of the conversation as a whole is also relevant to the same subject. The metalogues are mostly thought exercises with titles such as 'What is an Instinct' and 'How Much Do You Know.' In the metalogues, the playful dialectic structure itself is closely related to the subject matter of the piece.ĭEFINITION: A metalogue is a conversation about some problematic subject.

The book begins with a series of metalogues, which take the form of conversations with his daughter Mary Catherine Bateson. It was originally published by Chandler Publishing Company in 1972 (republished 2000 with foreword by Mary Catherine Bateson). Subject matter includes essays on anthropology, cybernetics, psychiatry, and epistemology. Steps to an Ecology of Mind is a collection of Gregory Bateson's short works over his long and varied career.

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