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=== Culture Contact and Schismogenesis === | === Culture Contact and Schismogenesis === | ||
=== Experiments in Thinking About Observed Ethnological Behavior === | === Experiments in Thinking About Observed Ethnological Behavior === | ||
* Bateson's father had always a hankering after the problems of pattern and symmetry | |||
* The types of mental operation which are useful in analyzing one field may be equally useful in another. | |||
* The advances in scientific thought come from a combination of loose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most precious tool of science. | |||
* A habit of constructing abstractions which refer to terms of comparison between entities. | |||
* I felt that I had discovered how to think. | |||
* Psychoanalysis has erred sadly in using words that are too short and therefore appear more concrete than they are. | |||
=== Morale and National Character === | === Morale and National Character === | ||
* A person's character is oriented to the motifs and patterns of relationship in the society in which they live. | |||
* To limit the scope of a concept is almost synonymous with defining it. | |||
=== Bali: The Value System of a Steady State === | === Bali: The Value System of a Steady State === | ||
=== Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art === | === Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art === | ||
Revision as of 15:26, 8 August 2025
Part I: Metalogues
Why do Things Get in a Muddle
Why do Frenchmen?
About Games and Being Serious
How Much Do You Know?
Why Do Things Have Outlines?
Why a Swan?
What is an Instinct?
Part II: Form and Pattern in Anthropology
Culture Contact and Schismogenesis
Experiments in Thinking About Observed Ethnological Behavior
- Bateson's father had always a hankering after the problems of pattern and symmetry
- The types of mental operation which are useful in analyzing one field may be equally useful in another.
- The advances in scientific thought come from a combination of loose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most precious tool of science.
- A habit of constructing abstractions which refer to terms of comparison between entities.
- I felt that I had discovered how to think.
- Psychoanalysis has erred sadly in using words that are too short and therefore appear more concrete than they are.
Morale and National Character
- A person's character is oriented to the motifs and patterns of relationship in the society in which they live.
- To limit the scope of a concept is almost synonymous with defining it.