Background
Cammann, Schuyler Van Rensselaer was born on February 2, 1912 in New York City. Son of Herbert Schuyler and Katharine Van Rensselaer (Fairfax) Cammann.
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The Land of the Camel: Tents and Temples of Inner Mongolia
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THE LAND OF THE CAMEL- Tents and Temples of Inner Mongolia By SCHUYLER CAMMANN. FOREWORD: This book describes western Inner Mongolia in 1945. For almost nine years this region had been cut off by hostilities with the Japa nese, which began there in 1936, and it will probably be a very long time before any American can get there again. Even before the war it was little known, as the distance from the China coast had prevented foreign contacts, except for a handful of missionaries. The war years had brought marked changes to Inner Mongolia, accelerating the exploitation, terrorization, and dispossession of the Mongols which the Chinese had begun some forty years before. Enough Mongols were still living there, however, to enable us to see and share their life in tents and temples, after the end of the war brought us leisure from other activities. It seemed important to write down what we saw of their strange customs and complex religion, as well as to describe the forces that were undermining their old traditions and their way of life. Thus this is primarily an account of the Mongols we met, and their opponents among the immigrant settlers and border officials. But it would not present a complete picture of the region if it did not also describe the semifeudal realm of the Belgian mission ary fathers,. which has now passed into history. Most of Chapter 10 has previously been published in the Bulletin of the University Museum, Philadelphia, while some of the passages dealing with Mongolian chess have appeared in an article for Natural History. The writer is especially grateful to Walter Hill and to Dr. William LaSor for their kindness in allowing him to use their photographs. SCHUYLER CAMMANN. Contents include: 1 First Impressions of Mongolia 3 2 Crossing the Ordos 9 3 The Great Plain IS 4 Camp Life and Recreation 21 5 Farmers of the Great Plain 28 6 The Victory in Shanpa 41 7 Our First Lamasery 48 8 The Mongols at Home 57 9 Meeting Dunguerbo 66 10 The Living Buddha of Shandagu 73 11 Chien-li Temple, Pride of the Oirats 85 12 More Lama Personalities 96 13 Mongol Festival 101 14 Down the Range to Dabatu Pass 106 1 5 Temple in the Gobi 1 14 16 Dunguerbo and His Family 121 17 The Journey to Ago-in Sume 130 18 Temple of the Antelope Cave 137 19 Last Days in Shanpa 143 20 Lo-pei Chao 152 21 South by Camel 163 22 Ninghsia Interlude 173 23 The Second Camel Trip 183 24 Leaving the Ordos 193 Index 199 vii ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Getting the truck aboard the Yellow River ferry 12 Ordos camels in summer, with sagging humps 12 Chinese immigrant farmer ploughing up old Mongol grazing land on Hou-tao Plain 13 Farmers harvesting soy beans on Hou-tao Plain 13 The camp well 24 A Chinese mother rides into Shanpa to market 24 A Provincial army caravan enters Shanpa 24 Typical Chinese tenant farmers homes on Hou-tao Plain 25 Tsong Kapa, founder of the Reformed Sect, with episodes from his life 52 Tara, the Green Goddess. Gilded bronze image from a Mongol lamasery 53 Mongol woman milking goats 64 Yurts in the wasteland, Beilighe Pass 64 Dunguerbo turning a giant prayer wheel in a lamasery 65 Shandagu Miao at the base of the mountains. Author in foreground 80 Chortens at Shandagu Miao 80 Yamantaka and other demon-gods 80 The Golden Image at Shandagu Miao 81 Main pieces from two Mongolian chess sets 88 Playing Mongolian Chess 89 Peacock pawns and rabbit pawns from two Mongolian chess sets 89 The Abbot, Lopon Dorje, receives some guests 104 Two Oirat matrons in festival finery 105 A Mongol woman brings her child to the Festival 105 A Temple in the Gobi...
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Miniature Art From Old China - Chinese Snuff Bottles From The Montclair Art Museum Collections
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Miniature art from old China : Chinese snuff bottles from the Montclair Art Museum collections
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This is a 99 page soft cover book titled MINIATURE ART FROM OLD CHINA: Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Montclair Art Museum Collections by Schuyler V.R. Cammann. Published by the Museum in 1982. Illustrated with color photographs. See my photographs (3) of this book on main listing page. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-9-middle-R) rareviewbooks
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(Substance and Symbol in Chinese Toggles: With a Catalogue of the C. F. Bieber Collection ) Author: Schuyler Cammann Jul-2006
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Substance and Symbol in Chinese Toggles: Chinese Belt Toggles From the C. F. Bieber Collection.
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Although the Japanese belt ornaments known as netsuke have long been popular with collectors and much written about, the Chinese toggles which preceded them have gone little noticed. Professor Cammann's long out of print work was the first book in any Western language to discuss them. Using examples from the C.F. Bieber collection and other private and museum collections, Professor Cammann discusses every aspect of these toggles, from the selection of materials through the methods used to make them and choices of motif and decoration. Toggles were chiefly made and worn by common people and thus form part of China's rather neglected folk art tradition. Materials were chosen for specific medicinal or magical reasons assumed to make them efficacious as amulets. Readers are introduced to figures and motifs of Chinese folklore as well as more conventional symbols from the Buddhist and Taoist religious traditions. Mongolian and Tibetan toggles are also discussed, both in terms of their own traditions and contrasted with the more familiar Chinese and Manchu examples.
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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- Substance and Symbol in Chinese Toggles: Chinese Belt Toggles from the C.F. Bieb
- Trade Through the Himalayas: The Early British Attempts to Open Tibet
- The Land Of The Camel Tents And Temples Of Inner Mongolia (This work has been selected by scholars as being cultural...)
- Substance and Symbol in Chinese Toggles: With a Catalogue of the C.F. Bieber Collection (Although the Japanese belt ornaments known as netsuke hav...)
Schuyler Van Rensselaer Van Rensselaer Cammann
Edit ProfileEducation
AB, Yale University, 1935; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1941; Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1949.
Career
Teacher, Yale-in-China, Changsha, Hunan., 1935-1937;
assistant professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1949-1950;
associate professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1950-1966;
professor East Asian studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1966-1982;
professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1982-1991;
assistant curator, University Museum, Philadelphia, 1948-1950;
associate curator, University Museum, Philadelphia, 1950-1955;
honorary curator, University Museum, Philadelphia, 1979-1982;
curator emeritus, University Museum, Philadelphia, 1982-1991. North Atlantic Treaty Organization professor to Denmark, U. Copenhagen, 1969. Professor International School American around the world, 1962-1963.
Member panel Columbia Broadcasting System-television show What In The World, Philadelphia, 1950-1955.
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Substance and Symbol in Chinese Toggles: With a Catalogue of the C.F. Bieber Collection
(Although the Japanese belt ornaments known as netsuke hav...)
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Substance and Symbol in Chinese Toggles: With a Catalogue of the C.F. Bieber Collection
(Although the Japanese belt ornaments known as netsuke hav...)
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Miniature art from old China : Chinese snuff bottles from the Montclair Art Museum collections
(This is a 99 page soft cover book titled MINIATURE ART FR...)
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The Land of the Camel: Tents and Temples of Inner Mongolia
(Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating bac...)
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The Land Of The Camel Tents And Temples Of Inner Mongolia
( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)
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The Land of the Camel: Tents and Temples of Inner Mongolia
(THE LAND OF THE CAMEL- Tents and Temples of Inner Mongoli...)
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The Land Of The Camel Tents And Temples Of Inner Mongolia
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
- Substance and Symbol in Chinese Toggles: Chinese Belt Toggles from the C.F. Bieb
- Miniature Art From Old China - Chinese Snuff Bottles From The Montclair Art Museum Collections
- (Substance and Symbol in Chinese Toggles: With a Catalogue of the C. F. Bieber Collection ) Author: Schuyler Cammann Jul-2006
- Substance and Symbol in Chinese Toggles: Chinese Belt Toggles From the C. F. Bieber Collection.
- Trade through the Himalayas;: The early British attempts to open Tibet
- Trade Through the Himalayas: The Early British Attempts to Open Tibet
- Substance & Symbol in Chinese Toggles
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Substance and Symbol in Chinese Toggles: With a Catalogue of the C.F. Bieber Collection
Membership
Served to lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1941-1946, China. Member American Oriental Society (vice president 1956-1957, associate editor journal 1948-1950). Clubs: Philadelphia Oriental (twice president).
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Married Marcia de F. Post, February 6, 1943 (divorced 1972). Children: Frances Cammann Hrynio, Stephen Van Rensselaer, Hamilton F., Elizabeth Cammann Holcombe, William B. Married Mary Lyman Cox.
December 29, 1980.
- Father:
- Herbert Schuyler Cammann
- Mother:
- Katharine Van Rensselaer (Fairfax) Cammann
- Spouse:
- Mary Lyman Cox
- Spouse:
- Marcia de F. Post
- child:
- Elizabeth Cammann Holcombe Cammann
- child:
- William B. Cammann
- child:
- Frances Cammann Hrynio Cammann
- child:
- Stephen Van Rensselaer Cammann
- child:
- Hamilton F. Cammann
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Political Party
Democrat