Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson was born on May 9th, 1904, in Grantchester England. His parents were Caroline Durham and William Bateson. William was a renowned geneticist at Cambridge University. Gregory attended Charterhouse public school in London from 1917 to 1921, where he studied zoology. He continued his education at St. Johns College, Cambridge University from 1922 to 1925, where he earned his B.S. in biology at the age of 21. It was during a trip to the Galapagos Islands, that Bateson decided that he would study anthropology. Upon returning to England, he pursued his graduate studies in Cambridge under the guidance of A.C. Haddon, an English anthropologist and comparative anatomist who helped establish anthropology in Britain. During 1927 and 1928, Bateson did his first anthropological fieldwork with the Baining in New Britain. He considered this early fieldwork a complete failure, because he felt "he didn't know what he was doing". In late 1928, he became Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, where he worked under A.R. Radcliffe-Brown. During 1929 and 1930, Bateson went to New Guinea, where he did his fieldwork among the Iatmul. After this fieldwork, he was able to complete his thesis and receive his M.A.
As Bateson developed an interest in non-human communication and learning, he started to observe otters and then octopuses, along with Lois Cammack. They first kept them in the morgue of the Palo Alto hospital, and then in his living room under close observation for over a year. Unfortunately they received no further grants to continue these studies. Bateson and Cammack were married in 1961 and their marriage produced one daughter. Bateson became a Lecturer at Columbia University in 1943 and worked for the United States Office of Strategic Services in Southeast Asia from 1944 through 1945. He occupied posts in China, Burma, Sri Lanka, and India during this period. It was for this work that Bateson received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Upon returning to the United States, he served as visiting professor of anthropology in the graduate faculty at the New School for Social Research in New York City and at Harvard University. From 1948 to 1949, Bateson taught at the University of California in San Francisco. Because they were working on separate projects, Bateson and Mead were continuously separated, but they continued to interact intellectually. In 1950, they decided to get divorced, and one year later Bateson married Elizabeth Summer. This marriage produced three children before they divorced in 1958. In 1931 Bateson became a research fellow at St. Johns College. He returned to New Guinea in 1932 to continue his fieldwork. It was during this trip that Bateson met his future wife, fellow anthropologist Margaret Mead, whom he married in 1936. They spent the next two years conducting research in Bali, where they pioneered the field of visual anthropology. Gregory Bateson had a remarkable career. Since his research crossed the disciplinary boundaries of cyberne
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