Peripheral Visions

Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar. Peripheral Visions begins with a sacrifice in a Persian garden, moving on to a Philippine village and then to the Sinai desert, and concludes with a description of a tour bus full of Tibetan monks. Bateson''s reflections bring theses narratives homes, proposing surprising new vision of our own diverse and changing society and offering us the courage to participate even as we are still learning.

About the author

Mary Catherine Bateson is Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University. She received an undergraduate degree from Radcliffe and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. She has written and coauthored numerous books on life history, lectures internationally, and is president of the Institute for Intercultural Studies in New York City. She divides her time between New Hampshire and Virginia.

Product details

• Authors: Mary C Bateson, Mary C. Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.1995
• EAN: 9780060926304
• ISBN: 978-0-06-092630-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Harper Perennial
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Evolution, HISTORY: Social History, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Biology, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Science & Technology, PSYCHOLOGY: Social Psychology, SCIENCE: History, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Anthropology / Cultural & Social, WOMEN'S STUDIES: ANTHROPOLOGY