"Our Kind of People?"
Building Communities of Inclusion and Discovery
A Public Lecture by MARY CATHERINE BATESON
July 24, 2000
Several hundred people flocked to the lecture by anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, who examined the characteristics within individuals, organizations, institutions, and systems that are most likely to foster healthy communities during the next generation. Dr. Bateson, who is currently the Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University, is the author of several books, including
Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition;
Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way; Composing a Life; and
With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson.
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Dr. Mary
Catherine Bateson signing a copy of one of her publications after the
lecture.
