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Article: Full Circles. Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition.
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- Journal of Comparative Family Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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BATESON, Mary Catherine, FULL CIRCLES. OVERLAPPING LIVES: Culture and Generation in Transition. New York, NY: The Ballantine Publishing Group, 2001,263 pp., $12.95 softcover.
This book, by the daughter of famous anthropologists Mary Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, is a highly personal effort to understand and celebrate the increasing diversity of American culture. In fact, the book is dedicated to Margaret Mead, who lived from 1901 to 1978 and who taught graduate courses for years at Columbia University. The mechanism for this examination is a cross-generational dialogue in a classroom at Spelman College. It was an opportunity for young African-American women ...