He spent much of the remainder of his life in the Kankana-ey town of Sagada.Īlthough some of his most influential academic works - "Prehispanic Source Materials" and "Discovery of the Igorots" - are of particular interest to anthropologists, he personally rejected the description anthropologist as applying to himself. Īs the Episcopal Church became well established in the Cordillera mountain region of Northern Luzon during the US colonial period, it was here that Scott settled. In 1953 he was appointed lay missionary in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Immediately upon graduation he was recalled to active duty and served in the navy for eighteen months during the Korean War. With the general expulsion of foreigners from China in 1949, he followed some of his teachers to Yale University where he enrolled, graduating in 1951 with a BA in Chinese language and literature. He taught and studied in Shanghai, Yangchow and Beijing until 1949. In 1946, Scott joined the Episcopal Church mission in China. Mary's School, the Episcopalian Church's only Training School in the Philippines when Scott came to Sagada in the 1950s, pictured 2007
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