Paperback, 304 pages
English language
Published Sept. 1, 1985 by Pocket.
In "With a Daughter's Eye," writer and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson looks back on her extraordinary childhood with two of the world's legendary anthropologists, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. This deeply human and illuminating portrait sheds new light on her parents' prodigious achievements and stands alone as an important contribution for scholars of Mead and Bateson. But for readers everywhere, this engaging, poignant, and powerful book is first and foremost a singularly candid memoir of a unique family by the only person who could have written it.
Capable biographical memoir, intentionally capturing her personal insights into her parents lives and the varying ways they sought patterns of meaning in the world around them. Both of them are more interesting to me now, and the habits of introspection and analysis they openly developed in their daughter shine through here.
