Upside-Down Gods: Gregory Bateson's World of Difference

by Peter Harries-Jones

Book Overview

This intellectual biography covers the trajectory of Bateson's career, from his anthropological work in Bali alongside his wife, Margaret Mead, to his contributions to family therapy in the United States, and to studies of recursion as a feature of communication patterns in both the human and in the animal world. Layers of feedback with their many differing contexts, highlight the presence of meaning in social relations in contrast to that absence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823270351
• ISBN13: 9780823270354
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"