G. William Skinner
Academic
1925 – 2008
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Who was G. William Skinner?
George William Skinner was a leading American anthropologist and scholar of China. Skinner was a leading proponent of the spatial approach to Chinese history, as explained in his Presidential Address to the Association for Asian Studies in 1984. He often referred to his approach as "regional analysis," and taught the use of maps as a key class of data in ethnography.
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- Born
- Feb 14, 1925
Oakland - Also known as
- G. Skinner
- George William Skinner
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- PhD, Cornell University
Anthropology
(1948 - 1954) - Deep Springs College
- PhD, Cornell University
- Lived in
- Davis
(1990 - 2008/10/26)
- Davis
- Died
- Oct 26, 2008
Davis
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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