Gregory Bateson

Person · Open Library

Born

9 May 1904

Died

4 July1980

Works

40

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Film & TV

Directing

Known for

• An Ecology of Mind — Self2010
• Margaret Mead: An Observer Observed — Self (archival footage)1996

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

14

Total plays

50

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis

   · 2004 · cited 43,713x

2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,522x

3. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,722x

4. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 19,944x

5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,517x

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Quotes

• “If it were possible adequately to present the whole of a culture, stressing every aspect exactly as appears in the culture itself, no single detail would appear bizarre or strange or arbitrary to the reader, but rather the details would all appear natural and reasonable as they do to the natives who have lived all their lives within the culture.”
• “Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion.”
• “Women watched for the spectacular performances of the men, and there can be no reasonable doubt that the presence of an audience is a very important factor in shaping the men's behavior. In fact, it is probable that the men are more exhibitionistic because the women admire their performances. Conversely, there can be no doubt that the spectacular behavior is a stimulus which summons the audience together, promoting in the women the appropriate behavior.”
• “The concept of communication includes all of those processes by which people influence one another... This definition is based on the premise that all actions and events have communicative aspects, as soon as they are perceived by a human being; it implies, furthermore, that such perception changes the information which an individual processes and therefor influences him.”
• “In order to proceed with abstraction, the organism must be exposed to a sufficient number of events which contain the same factors. Only then is a person equipped to cope with the most frequent happenings that he may encounter.”
• “Things have to be done fast in America, and therefore therapy has to be brief.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1904-05-09 ) 9 May 1904, Grantchester , England

Died

4 July 1980 (1980-07-04) (aged 76), San Francisco, California, U.S.

Known for

Double bind , ecology of mind, deuterolearning, schismogenesis

Spouses

Margaret Mead ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1936 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1950 ) ​ Elizabeth Sumner ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1951 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1957 ) ​ Lois Cammack, ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1961 ) ​

Children

5, including Mary C. Bateson

Father

William Bateson

Relatives

William Henry Bateson (grandfather) Anna Bateson (grandmother) Margaret Heitland (aunt) William Emerton Heitland (uncle) Anna Bateson (botanist) (aunt) Mary Bateson (aunt) Florence Margaret Durham (aunt)

Fields

Anthropology , social sciences , linguistics , cybernetics , systems theory

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Wikidata facts

Image

Mary Catherine Bateson & Sergio Manghi at a conference, 2004 (cropped - Gregory Bateson).jpg

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