{"product_id":"steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind","title":"Steps to an Ecology of Mind","description":"Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will continue to delight and inform generations of readers.\"This collection amounts to a retrospective exhibition of a working life. . . . Bateson has come to this position during a career that carried him not only into anthropology, for which he was first trained, but into psychiatry, genetics, and communication theory. . . . He . . . examines the nature of the mind, seeing it not as a nebulous something, somehow lodged somewhere in the body of each man, but as a network of interactions relating the individual with his society and his species and with the universe at large.\"€”D. W. Harding, New York Review of Books\"[Bateson's] view of the world, of science, of culture, and of man is vast and challenging. His eff\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0345301781\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0345301781.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Gregory Bateson\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Mass market paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43331924852797,"sku":"BVV.0345301781.A","price":103.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0345301781-0.jpg?v=1783567453","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}