![]() ![]() After their divorce in 1957, Bateson married his third wife, the social worker Lois Cammack, with whom he had another daughter. Bateson divorced Margaret Mead, with whom he had a daughter, in 1950, and married his second wife, Betty Sumner, in 1951. In 1947, he was appointed a visiting professor of anthropology at Harvard University. ![]() Applying systems theory and cybernetics to the social sciences became a major focus of his scientific work from 1942 onwards. ![]() Office of Strategic Services, mainly in South Asia (Schüttelpelz 2005: 125 ff.). Together with Mead, Bateson also analyzed Nazi propaganda (1943). The couple moved to the United States in 1939. In the same year, he married his first wife, the American anthropologist Margaret Mead, with whom he travelled to Bali for joint fieldwork. In 1936, he published his influential book Naven on the latmul, an indigenous people of New Guinea. ![]() Following studies in zoology, anthropology and ethnology in Cambridge, he went on extended field trips to the Galapagos Islands and to New Guinea. Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) was born in Grantchester, England, as the son of the geneticist William Bateson. British-American anthropologist, social scientist and systems theorist. ![]()
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