Gregory Bateson on the sense of the unity of science

Abstract

Anthropologist Gregory Bateson says that a sense of the fundamental unity of science was once achieved by successful specialist scientists expanding into borderline areas of research. I distinguish two ways in which this expansion can occur and note how one of these ways was, from Bateson’s perspective, troublesome for social anthropology.

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Terence Rajivan Edward
University of Manchester (PhD)

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