November 26th, 2010
Learning as a form of spirituality
an interview with Mary Catherine Bateson
Mary Catherine Bateson is an American writer and cultural anthropologist. Mary Bateson was the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Anthropology and English at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and is now Professor Emerita. Since 2006, she has been working with the Center on Aging and Work/Workplace Flexibility at Boston College as a visiting scholar. Mary Bateson also serves the Lifelong Access Libraries Initiative of the Americans for Libraries Council as a special consultant. Other teaching and research she has done includes locations such as Harvard University, Northeastern University, Damavand College (Tehran), Ateneo de Manila University, Brandeis University, Amherst College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Spelman College. She has been the Dean of Social Studies and Humanities at the University of Northern Iran and the Dean of Faculty at Amherst College.
Dr. Bateson is a distinguished author in her field with many published monographs. Among Dr. Bateson’s many books is Composing a Life, Our Own Metaphor, and Peripheral Visions, as well as a memoir, With a Daughter’s Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom is her latest book.
http://www.marycatherinebateson.com/
Mary Catherine speaks with Joanna about a new kind of elderhood, the deep need for long-term thinking, life-long learning, identifying self-limiting clichés, “where wisdom comes from…?”
Music: “Proseta se Jovka Kumanovka” (from Live in Zagreb), by Vlatko Stefanovski & Miroslav Tadic
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