Mary Catherine Bateson

Biographic Data

ID133896
NAMEMary Catherine Bateson
GIVEN NAMESMary Catherine
FAMILY NAMEBateson
SIGNATUREBATESON M C
AFFILIATIONSGeorge Mason University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS81
WORKS AS AUTHOR38
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1890
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX4

  • Transitions and Transformations

    Mary Catherine Bateson, Diana De G Brown et al.BOOKTransitions and transformations2022

    Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions …

  • Thinking Race

    Richard A Goldsby, Mary Catherine BatesonBOOKThinking Race2019

    Thinking Race clarifies the relationship between biology and race, showing how racism can result from a misguided blending of biology with social construction. Using arresting examples, Richard Goldsby and Mary Catherine Bateson aim to help readers accept the reality of human difference while understanding human unity. Controversial issues of race and IQ, race and athletic ability, and perceptions of race and beauty are examined, as are those of …

  • Gifts & Nations

    Wilton S Dillon, Mary Catherine Bateson et al.BOOKGifts and Nations2017

    What can men in industrial nations learn from their "primitive" contemporaries, and the habits of earlier civilizations? This book by acclaimed cultural anthropologist Wilton S. Dillon suggests that modern political, religious, and scientific communities--and alliances--would be enhanced greatly if we understood how gift exchange and reciprocity helped to balance earlier institutions and societies.Using the example of the gift behavior of France …

  • Norbert Wiener

    Open AccessMary Catherine BatesonARTICLEIEEE Technology and Society…2015

    Reports on Norbert Wiener. Wiener coined the word “cybernetics” from the Greek word for steersman, defining it as the “science of communication and control.” He is sometimes called the “father of the computer,” but more important was what is often called systems theory and mainly now belongs to business schools and family therapy

  • Creating a Climate for Change

    Open AccessRobert W Kates, Ann Bostrom et al.BOOKCreating a Climate for Change2007

    The need for effective communication, public outreach and education to increase support for policy, collective action and behaviour change is ever present, and is perhaps most pressing in the context of anthropogenic climate change. This book is the first to take a comprehensive look at communication and social change specifically targeted to climate change. It is a unique collection of ideas examining the challenges associated with communicating…

  • Full circles, overlapping lives

    Mary Catherine BatesonBOOKFull circles, overlapping lives2000

    The author examines the concepts of family, strangers, home, race, class, and generations by looking at her own life and the lives of her students from Spelman College and George Mason University

  • Lita Osmundsen (1926-1998)

    Open AccessMary Ellen Morbeck, Mary Catherine Bateson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1998Cited by: 1

  • The Human Career

    Open AccessMary Catherine BatesonARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1994

  • Joint performance across cultures

    Mary Catherine BatesonARTICLEText and Performance Quarterly1993Cited by: 9

  • Angels Fear

    Open AccessGregory Bateson, Mary Catherine BatesonBOOKAngels fear1987

    This is a re-issue of Gregory Bateson's and Mary Catherine Bateson's work, which has been out of print for the past 20 years, 2004 is the G. Bateson centennial and much interest is anticipated for his publications. This work is the final sustained thinking of Bateson. In collaboration with his daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, this volume sets out Bateson's natural history of the relationship between ideas. The book incorporates writing by both f…

  • With a Daughter's Eye

    Deborah Tannen, Mary Catherine Bateson et al.ARTICLELanguage1986Cited by: 47

  • Continuities in Insight and Innovation

    Open AccessMary Catherine BatesonARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1980Cited by: 4References: 4

    A biographical study of Margaret Mead presents a special opportunity for anthropologists to look at the relationship between the personality of a researcher, the researcher's own culture, and the scientific product, because of Mead's own awareness of disciplined subjectivity and the richness of the available scientific and personal record. Concurrently, it will be possible to consider her innovations and conservatisms in family life and organizat…

  • Our Own Metaphor

    W David Lewis, Mary Catherine BatesonARTICLETechnology and Culture1974

  • Structural Continuity in Poetry

    Gernot L Windfuhr, Mary Catherine Bateson et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1974

  • Structural Continuity in Poetry

    G E Von Grunebaum, Mary Catherine BatesonARTICLELanguage1973

  • Arabic Language Handbook

    Kostas Kazazis, Mary Catherine BatesonARTICLELanguage1969

    The demand for information on learning has grown spectacularly as English-speaking people have come to realize how much there is yet to know about other parts of the world. It is fitting that this Arabic Language Handbook, complementing University Press' exceptional language textbooks, is the first in a new series: Georgetown Classics in Language and Linguistics. Sparked by the new demand, this reprint of a genuinely gold-standard language volume…

  • Arabic Language Handbook

    Anwar G Chejne, Mary Catherine BatesonARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1969

  • Linguistics in the Semiotic Frame

    Open AccessMary Catherine BatesonARTICLELinguistics1968Cited by: 1

  • Linguistics

    Open AccessMary Catherine BatesonARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1967

  • Kinesics and Paralanguage Conference

    Open AccessMary Catherine BatesonARTICLEAnthropology News1963

  • The Burgesses of Domesday and the Malmesbury Wall

    Mary Catherine Bateson, ED E H R ED E H R et al.ARTICLEThe English Historical Review1906

    Journal Article The Burgesses of Domesday and the Malmesbury Wall Get access ED. E.H.R. ED. E.H.R. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XXI, Issue LXXXIV, October 1906, Pages 722–723, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XXI.LXXXIV.722 Published: 01 October 1906

  • The English and the Latin Versions of a Peterborough Court Leet, 1461

    Mary Catherine Bateson, MARY BATESONARTICLEThe English Historical Review1904Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The English and the Latin Versions of a Peterborough Court Leet, 1461 Get access MARY BATESON MARY BATESON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XIX, Issue LXXV, July 1904, Pages 526–528, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XIX.LXXV.526 Published: 01 July 1904

  • The Huntingdon Song School and the School of St. Gregory's, Canterbury

    Mary Catherine Bateson, MARY BATESONARTICLEThe English Historical Review1903

    The Huntingdon Song School and the School of St. Gregory's, Canterbury Get access MARY BATESON MARY BATESON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XVIII, Issue LXXII, October 1903, Pages 712–713, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XVIII.LXXII.712 Published: 01 October 1903

  • Irish Exchequer Memoranda of the Reign of Edwaird I

    Mary Catherine Bateson, MARY BATESONARTICLEThe English Historical Review1903

    Irish Exchequer Memoranda of the Reign of Edwaird I Get access MARY BATESON MARY BATESON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XVIII, Issue LXXI, July 1903, Pages 497–513, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XVIII.LXXI.497 Published: 01 July 1903

  • The Creation of Boroughs

    Mary Catherine Bateson, MARY BATESONARTICLEThe English Historical Review1902