Papers of Dr. Schuyler Jones

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MSS. Afr. s. 2254

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Printed and typescript items relating to the Mau Mau emergency in Kenya, 1953.

Dates

Creation: 1953

Extent

27 ff.

Language of Materials

English

Preferred Citation

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Shelfmark:

MSS. Afr. s. 2254

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 2670

Additional Description

Biographical / Historical

Dr. Schuyler Jones (b 1930), CBE (1998) was educated at Wichita High School, Kansas, the University of Edinburgh (MA) and the University of Oxford (MA, DPhil), where he lectured in ethnology, 1970-1971. He was Assistant Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1971-1985 and Director, 1985-1997.

During his career he took part in the following anthropological expeditions -

North Africa, the Sahara, West Africa, 1951
French Equatorial Africa, Belgian Congo, East Africa, 1952
South Africa, the Zambezi and Congo Rivers, 1953
French West Africa, the Sahara, 1954
Eastern Mediterranean, 1956
Greek Islands, 1957
Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, 1958
Pakistan, Kashmir, Afghanistan, 1959
Nuristan, 1960-1970
Central China, Gobi Desert, Chinese Turkestan, 1984
East Africa, 1985
Central China, Tibet, Gobi Desert, 1986
South China, Chinese Turkestan, Hunza, Gilgit, 1988
Greenland, 1991
East Africa and Greenland, 1993

He was a council member, RAI, 1986-1990 and a trustee of the Horniman Memorial Museum, London, 1989-1994. He also served temporarily in the Kenyan Police Force during the 1950s. He was married twice, in 1955 to Lis Margit Sondergaard, with whom he had one son and one daughter, and in 1998 to Lorraine Christine Vieira.

His publications include the following -

Under the African sun (London; Hurst & Blackett; [1956])
An annotated bibliography of Nuristan (Kafiristan) and the Kalash Kafirs of Chitral (Copenhagen; Munksgaard; 1966-1969)
The Political organization of the Kam Kafirs. A preliminary analysis(Copenhagen; s.d.; 1967)
Men of influence in Nuristan: a study of social control and dispute settlement in Waigal Valley, Afghanistan (London, New York; Seminar Press, 1974)
Hunting and trading on the Great Plains, 1859-1875, by James R. Mead, ed. Schuyler Jones (London, Norman; University of Oklahoma Press; c1986)
Afghanistan (Oxford; Clio; 1992)
Tibetan nomads: environment, pastoral economy, and material culture (London, Copenhagen; Thames and Hudson, Rhodos International Science and Art Publishers; 1996)