Name: Naven: A Survey of the Problems Suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a new Guinea Tribe Drawn From Three Points of View
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Author: Gregory Bateson
ISBN: 9780804705202

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Naven: A Survey of the Problems Suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a new Guinea Tribe Drawn From Three Points of View

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gregory Bateson

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Year

1958

Language

English

Pages

367

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.5 x 13.8 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.42 kg.

ISBN

9780804705202

ISBN13

9780804705202

Edition No.

0002

Synopsis "Naven: A Survey of the Problems Suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a new Guinea Tribe Drawn From Three Points of View "

"Naven" is the name of a peculiar ritual practiced by Iatmul, a head-hunting tribe of New Guinea.Th e ceremony is performed to congratulate members of the tribe upon the completion of notable accomplishments, among which homicide ranks highest. Ordinarily this tribe insists upon an extreme contrast between the sexes, but in the "naven" ceremony, tranvestitism and ritual homosexuality are represented. The "naven" serves in this book as a motive around which the author has constructed one of the most influential works of field anthropology ever written.

Gregory Bateson

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Gregory Bateson was an anthropologist, linguist, cyberneticist, and British epistemologist, widely recognized for his interdisciplinary approach to the study of communication, the mind, and systems. He was born on May 9, 1904, in Grantchester, England, and was the son of the famous geneticist William Bateson. He studied biology at the University of Cambridge, but his career shifted towards anthropology, psychology, and later, systems theory and ecology.

During his anthropological studies, he worked in New Guinea and Bali, where he developed a holistic view of human behavior. In the 50s and 60s, he participated in the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, where he introduced key concepts such as the "double bind," a theory that describes a communicative pattern present in some family dynamics and associated with schizophrenia.

Bateson was a key figure in the emergence of systems thinking and second-order cybernetics. His influence was crucial in the intellectual formation of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), although he was not its creator. Richard Bandler and John Grinder considered him one of their main inspirations.

Among his most influential works is Steps to an Ecology of the Mind (1972), where he articulated many of his deepest ideas about mind, communication, and ecology.

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