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Mary Catherine Bateson dies at 81; anthropologist on the lives of women
By Penelope Green New York Times,Updated January 16, 2021, 3:42 p.m.
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Mary Catherine Bateson in her yard in Hancock, N.H., on Aug. 12, 2010. Bateson, a cultural anthropologist who was the author of quietly groundbreaking books on womenâs lives â and who as the only child of Margaret Mead had once been one of the most famous babies in America â died on Jan. 2 at 81.Trent Bell/NYT
Mary Catherine Bateson, a cultural anthropologist who was the author of quietly groundbreaking books on womenâs lives â and who as the only child of Margaret Mead had once been one of the most famous babies in America â died Jan. 2 in Dartmouth, New Hampshire. She was 81.
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Illuminating a culture that has long been romanticized by Westerners as deeply spiritual and peaceful, Demick reveals what it is really like to be a Tibetan in the twenty-first century, trying to preserve one’s culture, faith, and language against the depredations of a seemingly unstoppable, technologically all-seeing superpower.
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Barbara Demick is the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. Her reporting on North Korea and coverage of Sarajevo have won numerous awards, including being a Pulitzer Prize finalist for international reporting. Her previous book is Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood.
For The Kid In Your Life, 3 Video Games That Play Like Storybooks By Ana Diaz | NPR
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Growing up, I always saw playing video games as a natural extension of my interest in reading. To me, the fantastical worlds I explored in games mirrored those of my favorite children s books like
Where the Wild Things Are and
The Lorax. Many of the games I played and the stories I read shared a similar sense of whimsy and adventure, and piqued my interest with intriguing art styles.
And that makes sense, given that some video games evoke the feeling of reading a great piece of children s literature. This is especially true for the point-and-click genre (named after the way you play), which can make you feel like you re turning the pages in a book as you progress from scene to scene, moving your character across a static, 2D illustrated background. And just like a children s book, these games encourage you to stop and take in the scene as a whole.
Mary Catherine Bateson Dies at 81; Anthropologist on Lives of Women
After a well-documented childhood as the daughter of Margaret Mead, she earned her own renown with a book on women’s lives that became a touchstone to feminists.
Mary Catherine Bateson at her home in New Hampshire in 2010. In “Composing a Life,” about the stop-and-start nature of women’s lives, she wrote of life “as an improvisatory art.”Credit.Trent Bell for The New York Times
Published Jan. 14, 2021Updated Jan. 19, 2021
Mary Catherine Bateson, a cultural anthropologist who was the author of quietly groundbreaking books on women’s lives and who as the only child of Margaret Mead had once been one of the most famous babies in America died on Jan. 2 in Lebanon, N.H. She was 81.