Background
Jones, Schuyler was born on February 7, 1930 in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Son of Schuyler and Ignace (Mead) Jones.
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A Stranger Abroad, A Memoir Michael Palin CBE. “I first met Schuyler when he was running one of my favourite collections of International cultural artifacts, the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. His energy and enthusiasm for the delights crammed into this unique place could not help but rub off on me and I remain a staunch supporter of the Pitt Rivers to this day. I began making BBC series about far-off places when I was forty-five, and people like Schuyler roused admiration and envy in equal parts because they had been at it all their lives. I knew from our talks together that Schuyler was the sort of traveler I always wanted to be but never would have the time. Now, looking at this account of his life I realize that what I knew of Schuyler was just the tip of the ice-berg, though it does increase my envy to almost intolerable levels. A Stranger Abroad is a real treat.”
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Kalasha (Afghanistan people). Nuristan (Afghanistan : Region) -- Politics and government. Waigal Valley, Afghanistan -- Social life and customs.
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anthropologist museum director
Jones, Schuyler was born on February 7, 1930 in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Son of Schuyler and Ignace (Mead) Jones.
Master of Arts in Anthropology with honors, Edinburgh University, Scotland. Master of Arts in Anthropology, Oxford University, England. Doctor of Philisophy in Anthropology, Oxford University, England.
Assistant curator Pitt Rivers Museum, University Oxford, 1970-1971, assistant curator, university lecturer ethnology, 1971-1985, director, 1985-1997. Fellow Linacre College, Oxford University, 1970-1997, professor emeritus, since 1997. Anthropol. expeditions to Atlas Mountains, Southern Algeria, French West Africa, 1951-1952, Belgian, Congo, 1952-1953, Morocco High Atlas, Algeria, Sahara, Niger River, 1954, East Africa, 1953, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, 1958-1959.
Ten expeditions to Nuristan in the Hindu Kush, 1960-1970, Chinese Turkestan, 1985, Tibet and Gobi Desert, 1986, Southern China, Xinjiang and Pakistan, 1988, Western Greenland, 1991, Greenland and East Africa, 1993. Member council Royal Anthropol. Institute, 1986-1989.
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Trustee Horniman Museum, 1989—1995. Board governors Kansas State History Society, since 2004.
Married Lis Margit Søndergaard Rasmussen, December 20, 1955. Children: Peter R., Hannah L. Married Lorraine da'Luz Vieira, August 4, 1998.