Bio Note: Mary Catherine Bateson is a writer and cultural anthropologist. She has taught at Harvard, Amherst, Spelman, and George Mason University in the US, and also in Iran and the Philippines. Bateson’s books include With a Daughter’s Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson (1984) and the best-selling Composing a Life (1989). Her most recent book, Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom, appeared in September 2010. She collaborated with Gregory Bateson as rapporteur of his conference on “Conscious Purpose and Human Adaptation” in 1967, published by her as Our Own Metaphor (1972), and on Angels Fear (1987).

Affiliation: George Mason University (emerita), USA

Homepage: http://www.marycatherinebateson.com