Play and paradigm – TAASP keynote address, April 1977

This keynote address was delivered by Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), at the Third Annual Meeting of the Association for the Anthropological Study of Play, in San Diego, April 1977. It was transcribed, edited, and annotated by Phillips Stevens Jr., and first appeared in Volume 4(1) (1977) of The Association for the Anthropological Study of Play Newsletter (pp. 2–8).