Peripheral Visions

1958).
    Marjorie Shostak, Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981).

    In a number of cases I evoke a body of work simply by the name of the author. Fuller references appear here:
    William Beeman, Language, Status, and Power in Iran (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1986).
    Margaret Bullowa, Before Speech (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979).
    Karl W. Deutsch, The Nerves of Government , 2nd ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1966).
    Robert Edgerton, Mental Retardation (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979).
    Erik H. Erikson, Toys and Reasons: Stages in the Ritualization of Experience (New York: W. W. Norton, 1977).
    George Foster, “The Idea of Limited Good,” in Peasant Society: A Reader , ed. by Jack M. Potter (Boston: Little, Brown, 1967).
    E. D. Hirsch, Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987).
    H. E. Huntley, The Divine Proportion: A Study in Mathematical Beauty (New York: Dover, 1970).
    Theodora Kroeber, Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961).
    Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
    Alan Lomax, Folk Song Style and Culture (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1978).
    Konrad Lorenz, King Solomon’s Ring: New Light on Animal Ways (New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1952).
    James Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).
    Frank Lynch and Alfonso de Guzman, Four Readings on Philippine Values (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1970).
    John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (New York: John Wiley, 1964).
    Paul Radin, Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian (1926) (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983).
    Oliver Sacks, A Leg to Stand On (New York: HarperCollins, 1984).
    Daniel B. Schirmer and Stephen Rosskamm Shalom, eds., The Philippines Reader: A History of Colonialism, Dictatorship, and Resistance (Boston: South End Press, 1987).
    Carol Stack, All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community (New York: Harper & Row, 1974).
    Deborah Tannen, You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (New York: William Morrow, 1990).
    Howard Thurman, The Inward Journey (Richmond, Ind.: Friends United Press, 1971).
    Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X , ed. by Alex Haley (New York: Grove Press, 1965).

    I worked on this book on and off over a three-year period with flexibility made possible by George Mason University, which supported me in travel and manuscript preparation, and I spent a critical two months at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, a setting beyond compare for intensive work and a fascinating example of a transient community. My agent, John Brockman, and my editor, Susan Moldow, have done splendidly in supporting me in the transition from aspiration to reality. Others who have read and commented on portions of this manuscript include Diana Feige, Mary Garland, Richard Goldsby, Barbara Kreiger, Alan Lelchuk, Harold Morowitz, Frank Ortega, Roy Rappaport, Lisa Raskin, and David Sofield.
    My husband, Barkev, and my daughter, Vanni, have grown accustomed to the fact that I use what I learn with them and from them in my work. Barkev has always read and commented on multiple drafts, and Vanni too has taken up that role. Her voice will bring this book to life on tape. My thanks to Barkev and Vanni for support, caring, patience—all those things—but above all for the pleasures of life entwined with active minds.

About the Author

    M ARAY C ATHERINE B ATESON is Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University. She received an under-graduate degree from Radcliffe and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her many books include With a Daughter’s Eye, Our Own Metaphor, and Composing a Life. She divides her time between New Hampshire and Virginia.

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OTHER BOOKS BY MARY CATHERINE BATESON

    Composing a Life
    With a Daughter’s Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson
    Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account of a Conference on
    Conscious Purpose and Human Adaptation
    Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred (with Gregory