Mary Catherine Bateson Dies at 82; Anthropologist on Lives of Women
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 groundbreak...
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