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John Ryle (anthropologist) was born on 1952 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom, is a British writer and anthropologist. Discover John Ryle (anthropologist)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Occupation Writer, anthropologist, film-maker, editor
Age 72 years old
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Born 1952, 1952
Birthday 1952
Birthplace Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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John Rowland Ryle OBE is a British writer, anthropologist, social activist, filmmaker, teacher and publisher, with an interest in the history and culture of Eastern Africa.

He is co-founder of the Rift Valley Institute, and Legrand Ramsey Professor of Anthropology at Bard College, New York.

His father, John Creagh Ryle, a medical doctor and alpinist, was a general practitioner in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, where Ryle was born.

His mother, Melody Ryle, née Jackson, was a stalwart of the local Family Planning Association and a noted amateur botanist and gardener.

Ryle is a grandson of the pioneer of social medicine John Alfred Ryle, a nephew of the astronomer Sir Martin Ryle, a great-nephew of the philosopher Gilbert Ryle, and a great-great grandson of John Charles Ryle, evangelical Bishop of Liverpool in the last decades of the nineteenth century.

Ryle was educated at Shrewsbury School and Oxford University, where he graduated in English Language and Literature.

He pursued postgraduate studies in social anthropology, conducting fieldwork among the Agar Dinka communities in today's South Sudan.

1975

In 1975 he became an assistant editor at The Times Literary Supplement.

1978

During the printers' strike at Times Newspapers, he founded, with Richard Boston, the acclaimed but short-lived periodical Quarto (1978–1981).

1980

In the late 1980s, Ryle was a project officer at the Ford Foundation in Brazil and lived in an Afro-Brazilian community in Salvador da Bahia.

1982

From 1982 to 1986 he worked for the Sunday Times in London as Deputy Literary Editor and, subsequently, as a feature writer.

He has written for the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times and various scholarly periodicals, and is a contributing editor of Granta.

Ryle also worked as a doorman at the Embassy Club in Bond Street, London, as a roustabout for the Royal American Shows and the Canadian Pacific Railway, as ghost-writer of Mick Jagger's unpublished autobiography, and as a travel writer.

1990

In the 1990s, he worked as a consultant to relief and development organisations in Sudan and the Horn of Africa, including Save the Children Fund (UK).

In the 1990s he became an activist in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.

1995

His weekly newspaper column, "City of Words", appeared in The Guardian from 1995 to 1999.

1996

From 1996 to 1997, he was a research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.

2001

From 2001 to 2017, Ryle was successively chair and executive director of the Rift Valley Institute, a research and public information organisation operating in Eastern Africa that he founded with Jok Madut Jok and Philip Winter.

He was a member of the International Eminent Persons Group, reporting on slavery and abduction in Sudan.

2007

Since 2007, he has been Legrand Ramsey Professor of Anthropology at Bard College, a liberal arts college in New York state.

He has been a board member of the Human Rights Watch Africa Division, the Media Development Investment Fund and the scholarly journal African Affairs.

In 2022 he established a publishing company, City of Words, concentrating on works of reportage, life-writing and general non-fiction.

Ryle was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's 2021 Birthday Honours for services to research and education in Sudan, South Sudan and the Horn of Africa.