Mary Catherine Bateson has passed. There is an obituary at the New York Times, Amherst, and other locations. She is famous for viewing human lives as works of art and urged that we live and analyze them as such. Krista Tippet’s On Being has a valuable interview with Bateson about this work. For anthropologists such as myself, she is famous for being the daughter and biographer of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Her passing moves their era of anthropology further and further away from us.
This picture of Mary Catherine and Margaret is from the Smithsonian Archives. The image’s composition highlights their family resemblance.
Bateson from the On Being website.
Here’s one from The Edge website it has one of several videos of Mary Catherine speaking about her work and ideas.
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