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Gregory Bateson

1904 - 1980

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Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. His writings include Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979). In Palo Alto, California, Bateson and in these days his non-colleagues developed the double-bind theory of schizophrenia. Bateson's interest in systems theory forms a thread running through his work. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gregory Bateson is the 12th most popular anthropologist (down from 11th in 2019), the 759th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 540th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Anthropologist.

Gregory Bateson is most famous for his work in anthropology, cybernetics, and psychology. He was a founding member of the Palo Alto Mental Research Institute.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Gregory Bateson ranks 12 out of 93. Before him are Lewis H. Morgan, A. L. Kroeber, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, and Paul Broca. After him are Clifford Geertz, Eugène Dubois, Birutė Galdikas, Knud Rasmussen, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, and E. E. Evans-Pritchard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Gregory Bateson ranks 39. Before him are Witold Gombrowicz, Glenn Miller, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Luis Carrero Blanco, Antonín Novotný, and Lucile Randon. After him are Nikolai Ostrovsky, George F. Kennan, Willem de Kooning, Joseph Campbell, John Gielgud, and George Balanchine. Among people deceased in 1980, Gregory Bateson ranks 40. Before him are Alejo Carpentier, Milton H. Erickson, Hans Morgenthau, Oswald Mosley, C. P. Snow, and Hans Asperger. After him are Robert Whittaker, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Bill Evans, Marian Rejewski, Kim Jae-gyu, and Gustav Wagner.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gregory Bateson ranks 759 out of 8,785. Before him are Steve Howe (1947), Michael Howard (1941), Annie S. D. Maunder (1868), Rowland Hill (1795), Bryan Ferry (1945), and William Jones (1746). After him are Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (1631), Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1310), Willibrord (658), Timothy Laurence (1955), Eadred (923), and Æthelfrith (600).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Gregory Bateson ranks 4. Before him are Jane Goodall (1934), James George Frazer (1854), and Edward Burnett Tylor (1832). After him are Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), Mary Leakey (1913), Victor Turner (1920), Edmund Leach (1910), Ashley Montagu (1905), Jack Goody (1919), and Hugh Falconer (1808).

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