Schuyler Cammann

Schuyler Van Rensselaer Cammann (February 2, 1912, in New York City – September 9, 1991, in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire) was an anthropologist best known for work in Asia.

[4] His father, a great-grandson of Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat, was involved in real estate and insurance business he established in 1907.

During World War II, he served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy, stationed in Washington D.C., and later in Western China and Inner Mongolia.

[1] According to the History of Chinese Science and Culture Foundation, Cammann was "a man of independent means who had no academic ambitions or need for a salary.

Even though he was a mild, polite, and gentle person of great friendliness, he experienced rebuffs and ostracism from several colleagues which were undeserved.

In February 1943,[13] Cammann was married to Marcia de Forest Post at St. John's Chapel of the Washington Cathedral.