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American anthropologist (1939–2021)

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

Mary Catherine Bateson (December 8, 1939 – January 2, 2021) was an American writer and cultural anthropologist.

The daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson,^[1] Bateson was a noted author in her field with many published monographs.

Among her books was With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, a recounting of her upbringing by two famous parents.

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She taught at Harvard, Amherst, and George Mason University.

Early life and education

Bateson was a graduate of the Brearley School and received her B.A. from Radcliffe in 1960 and her Ph.D. in linguistics and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard in 1963. Her dissertation examined linguistic patterns in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry.^[2]

Career

In the mid-1960s, Bateson became a visiting assistant professor of anthropology at the Ateneo de Manila Universit Mary Catherine Bateson - Wikipedia XONUC