Mary Catherine Bateson

For the English historian, see Mary Bateson (historian).

Mary Catherine Bateson
Born	December 8, 1939(1939-12-08) New York, New York
Education	Brearley School (1957) Radcliffe College, B.A. (1960) Harvard University, Ph.D. (1963)
Occupation	Cultural anthropologist
Spouse	J. Barkev Kassarjian

Mary Catherine Bateson (born December 8, 1939) is an American writer and cultural anthropologist.

A graduate of the Brearley School, Bateson is the daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Since 1960, she has been married to Barkev Kassarjian, a professor of business management at Babson College. They have one daughter, Sevanne Margaret (born 1969), an actress who works professionally under the name Sevanne Martin.

Dr. Bateson is a distinguished author in her field with many published monographs. Among Dr. Bateson's many books is With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, a recounting of her upbringing by two famous parents.

Mary Catherine Bateson is a fellow of the International Leadership Forum and president of the Institute for Intercultural Studies in New York.

Bibliography

• Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom (2010)
• Willing to Learn : Passages of Personal Discovery (2004)
• Composing a Life (2001)
• Full Circles, Overlapping Lives : Culture and Generation in Transition (2000)
• Peripheral Visions - Learning Along the Way (1994)
• Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred (1987) written with Gregory Bateson
• With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson (1984)
• Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account of a Conference on the Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation (1972)
• Arabic Language Handbook (1967)

External links

• http://www.marycatherinebateson.com/
• International Leadership Forum
• Introduction to 2000 republication of Steps to an Ecology of Mind

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Name	Bateson, Mary Catherine
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Date of birth	December 8, 1939
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