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Gregory Bateson

British-American psychological anthropologist (1904–1980)

Gregory Bateson

Rudolph Arnheim (L) and Bateson (R) speaking at the American Federation of Arts 48th Annual Convention, 1957 Apr 6 / Eliot Elisofon, photographer
American Federation of Arts records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Born(1904-05-09)9 May 1904

Grantchester, England

Died4 July 1980(1980-07-04) (aged 76)

San Francisco, California, U.S.

Known forDouble bind, ecology of mind, deuterolearning, schismogenesis
Spouses

Margaret Mead

(m. 1936; div. 1950)​

Elizabeth Sumner

(m. 1951; div. 1957)​

Lois Cammack

(m. 1961)​
Children5, including Mary C.

Bateson

Scientific career
FieldsAnthropology, social sciences, linguistics, cybernetics, systems theory

Gregory Bates