doctoral_advisor death_place death_date birth_place citizenship nationality fields workplaces birth_date known_for doctoral_students article_title name alma_mater
lauriston sharp davis , california october 26 , 2008 oakland , california united states united states anthropology overseas chinese , indonesia and thailand -rrb- of china anthropology of southeast asia -lrb- especially cornell , davis university columbia university stanford university university of california february 14 , 1925 physiographic macroregions of china p. steven sangren g. william skinner
 george william skinner deep springs college cornell university
g. william skinner

george william skinner -lrb- ; february 14 , 1925 -- october 26 , 2008 -rrb- was a american anthropologist and scholar of china .
he often referred to his approach as `` regional analysis , '' and taught the use of maps as a key class of data in ethnography .
