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Don Handelman proposed using boundaries with “Moebius qualities” as an alternative to this thinker’s theory of ritual framing. This thinker used the example of dogs fighting to demonstrate how play creates metacommunicative relationships. “Repeated experience” and a “primary negative injunction” are central to a concept formulated by this thinker with psychotherapy theorists John Weakland and Donald Jackson. This thinker claimed that Alcoholics Anonymous followed systems theory in the essay “The Cybernetics of (15[1])‘Self’.” (15[1])A series of (*) “metalogues” with his daughter opens a work by this thinker that puts forth a “double-bind” theory of schizophrenia. (10[1])This thinker identified “schismogenesis” among the Iatmul people of New Guinea while documenting their naven ritual. For 10 points, name this anthropologist who wrote Steps to an Ecology of Mind and married Margaret (10[1])Mead. ■END■ (0[4])

ANSWER: Gregory Bateson [accept the Bateson project]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jacob PuthipirojNortheast by NorthwesternClown Senpais7115
Matt BollingerBHSU ReFantazioMusic to Help You Stop Smoking7215
Rob CarsonBHSU RebirthWho is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?9310
Ned TagtmeierThe Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)WashU12610
Leo TaoClown Squadhawk two of1280
Stephen HeritageNotre DameThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days1280
Logan MathisThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five DaysNotre Dame1280
Sinecio Moraleshawk two ofClown Squad1280

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