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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Steerforth Pr
Publication date
October 19, 2010
Pages
458
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781586421908
ISBN-10
1586421905
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.35 lbs.
Original list price
$24.99
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Writer and educator Mary Catherine Bateson is best known for the proposal that lives should be looked at as compositions, each one an artistic creation expressing individual responses to the unexpected. This collection can be read as a memoir of unfolding curiosity, for it brings together essays and occasional pieces, many of them previously unpublished or unknown to readers who know the author only from her books, written in the course of an unconventional career.
Bateson's professional life was interrupted repeatedly. She responded by refocusing her curiosity â by being willing to learn. The connections and echoes between the entries in her book are as intriguing as the contrasts in style and subject matter. The work is grounded in cultural anthropology but shaped by the observation that, in a world of rapid change and encounters with strangers, individuals can no longer depend on following traditionally defined paths.
Willing to Learn is arranged thematically. One section includes a sampling of writings about Bateson's parents, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. The longest section focuses primarily on the contemporary United States and deals with life stages and gender. Bateson argues that because women's lives have changed most radically, women are pioneers of emerging patterns that will affect everyone. Another section deals with belief systems, conflict, and change, especially in the Middle East, and the final section with different ways of knowing. Bateson is a singular thinker whose work enriches lives by bringing fresh, original ideas to subjects that affect all of our lives. Willing to Learn is at once an articulation of and an enduring testament to the artistic creation Bateson has produced pursuing her own life's work.
Bateson's professional life was interrupted repeatedly. She responded by refocusing her curiosity â by being willing to learn. The connections and echoes between the entries in her book are as intriguing as the contrasts in style and subject matter. The work is grounded in cultural anthropology but shaped by the observation that, in a world of rapid change and encounters with strangers, individuals can no longer depend on following traditionally defined paths.
Willing to Learn is arranged thematically. One section includes a sampling of writings about Bateson's parents, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. The longest section focuses primarily on the contemporary United States and deals with life stages and gender. Bateson argues that because women's lives have changed most radically, women are pioneers of emerging patterns that will affect everyone. Another section deals with belief systems, conflict, and change, especially in the Middle East, and the final section with different ways of knowing. Bateson is a singular thinker whose work enriches lives by bringing fresh, original ideas to subjects that affect all of our lives. Willing to Learn is at once an articulation of and an enduring testament to the artistic creation Bateson has produced pursuing her own life's work.
Editions
Hardcover
from Steerforth Pr (October 12, 2004)
9781586420802 | details & prices | 458 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.65 lbs | List price $27.00
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Steerforth Pr (October 19, 2010)
9781586421908 | details & prices | 458 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $24.99
About: Writer and educator Mary Catherine Bateson is best known for the proposal that lives should be looked at as compositions, each one an artistic creation expressing individual responses to the unexpected.
About: Writer and educator Mary Catherine Bateson is best known for the proposal that lives should be looked at as compositions, each one an artistic creation expressing individual responses to the unexpected.
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