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Drawing on her background as an anthropologist, extraordinary life experiences, and reflections on our rapidly changing world, the author proposes a new vision of learning through participation. From the author of Composing a Life. Reprint. $20,000 ad/promo.
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Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar. Peripheral Visions begins with a sacrifice in a Persian garden, moving on to a Philippine village and then to the Sinai desert, and concludes with a description of a tour bus full of Tibetan monks. Bateson's reflections bring theses narratives homes, proposing surprising new vision of our own diverse and changing society and offering us the courage to participate even as we are still learning.
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