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Title: Composing a Life by Mary Catherine Bateson ISBN: 0-8021-3804-7 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 10 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Subtly inspirational.
Comment: I can't remember why I investigated, ordered and then read this book other than it was written by Margaret Mead's daughter and I wanted to find out what the woman was like personally. What I found when I read the book was quite different. I felt such affinity with much that was presented about the lives of the women that I recommended the work to a friend. It is interesting that we both highlighted an event in Mary Bateson's life that we both had experienced in similar intensity. Bateson's candid verbalisation of the effect of the experience has helped to heal the wounds in both my friend and myself.
Rating: 4
Summary: Thinking outside the box....
Comment: I read Mary Catherine Bateson's book COMPOSING A LIFE when it was first issued some years ago. I had read her mother's biography BLACKBERRY WINTER, and I wanted to know more about the child raised by the woman who wrote COMING OF AGE IN SAMOA. Bateson's mother was married three times -- twice to anthropologists, including Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherine's father and Margaret Mead's third husband.
I was pleasantly surprised by Mary Catherine's strong individual personality and the inspirational tone of her book. Bateson definitely escaped her parents shadow. Having famous parents who study other people's children doesn't mean your life will be perfect or easy. Mary Catherine had to find her own way and compose her own life. Finding her way meant "stepping outside the box" or realizing that she could make choices at any point. She did not have to conform to society's notion of the phases of life (maybe her mother's study of "coming of age" had some effect on her novel thinking?).
Bateson's book helped me to think about my own life differently. I found the courage to go back to school at age 28 (I was a high school dropout with three small children), earn a B.A., M.A. and complete all the coursework for a PhD. Today, I am a a subject matter expert for one of the Federal Government's leading statistical agencies. At age 28, I had no idea how far I could go, or that I even wanted to go there. Mary Catherine Bateson was one of those pioneering women who helped me realize it is possible to change your life.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Pleasant Accident
Comment: I was quite pleased to have accidentally stumbled onto this book in a search to find materials focused on the concept of "corporate anthopology". Like Ayn Rand's ability to model her concepts of epistemology in her fictional novels, Mary Catherine exemplifies the work of a cultural anthropologist by sharing her personal observations of her own life and the lives of others. I was so sparked by the "personal jewels" I was unable to uncover for my own use that I can't wait to follow on to read her next book, which I've just ordered online...
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Title: Full Circles, Overlapping Lives : Culture and Generation in Transition by Mary Cather Bateson ISBN: 0345423577 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Peripheral Visions : Learning along the Way by Mary C. Bateson ISBN: 0060926309 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 24 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Solitude: A Return to the Self by Anthony Storr ISBN: 0345358473 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 06 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Writing a Woman's Life by CAROLYN G. HEILBRUN ISBN: 034536256X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson by Mary Catherine Bateson ISBN: 0060975733 Publisher: Harperperennial Library Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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