With a Daughter’s Eye

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With a Daughter’s Eye is a reflective memoir and intellectual biography in which anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson explores the lives and work of her famous parents, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, through her own perspective as their daughter.

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instanceOf book
intellectual biography
about development of Mary Catherine Bateson’s own intellectual identity
growing up as the daughter of famous intellectuals
audience readers interested in anthropology
readers interested in biography
readers interested in family and intellectual history
author Mary Catherine Bateson NERFINISHED
authorProfession anthropologist
explores how family background shapes intellectual development
how intellectual work shapes family life
fieldDiscussed communication theory
cultural anthropology
systems theory
focusesOn intersection of personal life and scholarly work
lives of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson
genre biography
memoir
hasCharacter Gregory Bateson NERFINISHED
Margaret Mead NERFINISHED
Mary Catherine Bateson NERFINISHED
language English
literaryForm non-fiction
mainTheme anthropology
family relationships
intellectual history
parent–child relationships
narrativeForm reflective memoir
perspective first-person
portrays Gregory Bateson’s work in anthropology and systems thinking
Margaret Mead’s career as an anthropologist
portraysAs Gregory Bateson as both theorist and father
Margaret Mead as both public figure and private parent
relationshipExplored collaboration and tension between Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson GENERATED
father–daughter relationship GENERATED
mother–daughter relationship GENERATED
setting 20th-century American intellectual life
subject Gregory Bateson NERFINISHED
Margaret Mead NERFINISHED
Mary Catherine Bateson NERFINISHED
tone analytical
reflective
writtenBy an anthropologist

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