Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition - Rilegato

Bateson, Mary Catherine

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9780375501012: Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition

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ISBN 10: 0375501010 ISBN 13: 9780375501012

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 2000

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The author of the bestselling Composing a Life offers her own revolutionary take on the role of longer life spans and recent lifestyle changes in reshaping individual identity and selffulfillment. 35,000 first printing.

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Praise for Full Circles, Overlapping Lives

"Mary Catherine Bateson has examined lives across races and cultures and has produced a wise and beautiful book. Anyone--from parent to policy maker--who needs to know how human beings tick will be richly rewarded by what Bateson has thought through so carefully and presented so elegantly."
--Roger Wilkins, author of A Man's Life

"Provocative and surprising, Full Circles, Overlapping Lives has Mary Catherine Bateson's unique signature: her uncanny ability to find the strange in the familiar, the ordinary in the exotic. With insight, grace, and generosity, Bateson witnesses the cross-generational dialogue in a classroom at Spelman College where young African-American women and their elders search for meaning and understanding in each other's life stories."
--Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot, author of Respect: An Exploration

"With her customary wisdom and subtle wit, Mary Catherine Bateson helps us think about the great divide that we all live with but few discuss: the enormously different life experiences of members of different generations. Drawing on the deeply personal and self-revealing stories both of young women just starting out and of women who have lived long, varied lives, she takes us on a stirring journey through the wonder and challenge of life and self in our fast-changing world."
--Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand

"A wonderfully knowing and engaging book by an anthropologist who has learned a lot from her students and tells us what it means to be an American--and how a nation's citizens vary in accordance with their age, their particular experiences."
--Robert Coles, James Agee Professor of Social Ethics, Harvard University

L'autore:

Mary Catherine Bateson is the Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and divides her time between Virginia and the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. She has written and co-authored eight books, including Composing a Life and With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson (named one of the best books of 1984 by The New York Times), and is president of the Institute for Intercultural Studies in New York City.

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