What is Mary Catherine Bateson?
{{Infobox person | name = Mary Catherine Bateson | image = Mary Catherine Bateson-2Nov2004.jpg | caption = At a conference on climate disruption in 2004 | birth_date = {{birth date|1939|12|08}} | birth_place = [[New York City]], New York, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2021|01|02|1939|12|08}} | death_place = [[Dartmouth, New Hampshire]], U.S. | education = [[Brearley School]] (1957)<br>[[Radcliffe College]], B.A. (1960)<br>[[Harvard University]], Ph.D. (1963) | occupation = [[Cultural anthropologist]] | spouse = {{marriage|J. Barkev Kassarjian|1960}} | children = 1 | parents = [[Gregory Bateson]]<br>[[Margaret Mead]] | relatives = [[Jeremy Steig]] (cousin)<br>[[William Steig]] (uncle)<br>[[Leo Rosten]] (uncle) }} '''Mary Catherine Bateson''' (December 8, 1939&nbsp;– January 2, 2021) was an American writer and cultural [[anthropologist]]. Bateson published many monographs. A well-known book she wrote is ''With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson''. In it, she tells what is it like, to have parents that are famous. She taught at [[Harvard University|Harvard]], [[Amherst College|Amherst]], and [[George Mason University]], among others. Bateson was a fellow of the [[International Leadership Forum]] and was president of the Institute for Intercultural Studies in New York until 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|title=NYTimes|url=http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/bateson-eye.html|access-date=2020-03-19|website=movies2.nytimes.com}}</ref>'' Bateson died on January 2, 2021, in her home in [[Dartmouth, New Hampshire]] from problems caused by a fall, aged 81.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/books/mary-catherine-bateson-dead.html|title=Mary Catherine Bateson Dies at 81; Anthropologist on Lives of Women|publisher=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 14, 2021}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bateson, Mary Catherine}}