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Mary Catherine Bateson — Living as an Improvisational Art

On Being with Krista Tippett

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I'm a Christa Tippet, and This Is on Being to Day With the Wise Writer Mary Katherine Bateson

Mary katherine bateson is an anthropologist and linguist. She's the daughter of iconic twentieth century anthropologists, margaret mead and gregory bateson. You wrote a beautiful essay about am your father's death in nineteen eighty. Do you feel like that sense of wonder is as much what religion keeps alive for human beings as as ritual? Yes, i think ritual is an important part of it, because ritual is constantly building....

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