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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 ‘Self’.” A series (15[1])of (*) “metalogues” with his daughter opens a work by this thinker that puts forth a “double-bind” theory (10[1])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 Mead. ■END■

ANSWER: Gregory Bateson [accept the Bateson project]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Eric ChenWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs7415
Swapnil GargBerkeleynumber of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku9110
Anuttam RamjiCry of the Common LoonStanford+9310

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