Abstract

This dissertation is a complete guide to the Gregory Bateson Archive at the University of California, Santa Cruz, written by the person who organized the archive. ;The Gregory Bateson Archive consists of some eighty document-boxes of material, dating primarily from the years 1946-1980. Included are approximately 350 essays, the manuscripts for Bateson's last three books as well as four uncompleted book manuscripts dating from the 1960's, some 4,000 letters by Gregory Bateson amid a total of thirty-nine document-boxes of correspondence , some seventy-six notebooks, four boxes of octopus and cetacean observation materials, Bateson's miscellaneous holograph notes and manuscript fragments, some five hundred tape recordings, over sixty films, and various articles about Bateson, photographs and slides, and supplementary books. ;In addition to identification of each item, the Guide/Catalog contains a detailed biographical chronology, a definitive Bibliography of the Published Work of Gregory Bateson , a catalog of the libraries of both Gregory Bateson and his geneticist father William Bateson, a complete list of Bateson's published and unpublished writings arranged chronologically by date of composition, extensive cross-referencing among the various portions of the archive, thus elucidating the provenance and context of otherwise unidentifiable items, a complete name and word/subject index to the largest single portion of the archive, the correspondence files , identification of the order of creation of the various drafts of each of Bateson's published and unpublished essays, analysis and chronological ordering of Bateson's notebooks, and an essay on the history and arrangement of the archive, including methodology