The daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, cultural anthropologist Bateson has long been fascinated by how humans understand, create and adapt to the world in which they live, and in this ...

WHEN Mary Catherine Bateson was a freshman at Radcliffe, she and the man she was dating went to hear her mother, Margaret Mead, lecture on the future of the American family. Afterward, back in her ...

Global warming, global terrorism, food crises, water crises, oil conflicts, culture wars - "civilisation" seems to be accelerating towards self-destruction. These are circumstances in which art and ...

Much has been made about the atmosphere on Friday night when Michael Conlan has his first fight as a pro in Dublin. He boxes Jack Bateson at 3Arena, and it is an important fight for both. But it is ...

Timothy Bateson, who has died aged 83, was a character actor of boundless versatility and great warmth of personality who will always be remembered for playing Lucky in the controversial British ...

"The schizophrenic has ‘learned’ to ‘live in a universe where the sequences of events are such that his unconventional communication habits will be in some sense appropriate’. His ‘disorder’ is part ...

Timothy Bateson, who has died aged 83, was a character actor of boundless versatility and great warmth of personality who will always be remembered for playing Lucky in the controversial British ...

Timothy Bateson, who has died aged 83, established his reputation as a fine character actor with the single, incomprehensible speech of the pathetic Lucky in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. 26 ...