George William Skinner | |
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Born | Oakland, California, U.S. | February 14, 1925
Died | October 26, 2008 Davis, California, U.S. | (aged 83)
Citizenship | United States |
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Known for | Physiographic macroregions of China |
Spouse | Susan L. Mann |
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Doctoral advisor | Lauriston Sharp |
Doctoral students | Norma Diamond, P. Steven Sangren |
George William Skinner (simplified Chinese: 施坚雅; traditional Chinese: 施堅雅; February 14, 1925 – October 26, 2008) was an American anthropologist and scholar of China.[1][2][3] Skinner was a proponent of the spatial approach to Chinese history, as explained in his Presidential Address to the Association for Asian Studies in 1984.[4] He often referred to his approach as "regional analysis," and taught the use of maps as a key class of data in ethnography.