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Date of Birth
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14-February-1925
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Place of Birth
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Oakland
(California, United States of America, Area code 510)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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G. Skinner, George William Skinner
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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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