The George William Skinner Private Papers

George William Skinner (1920 – 26 October 2008) – Anthropologist, academic

George William Skinner was an American academic considered to be one of the world’s foremost anthropologists of China.

Skinner was born on 14 February 1925 in Oakland, California. Skinner’s father, John James, owned a pharmacy and his mother, Eunice Engle, was a music teacher. Skinner was educated in Berkeley High School and then, Deep Springs College, an all-male liberal private liberal arts college where the education included manual labour.

In 1943, Skinner joined the Navy V-12 Program at the Missouri Valley College after two years at the Deep Springs College. The Navy V-12 Program was established by the War Department.... Click here to read more.

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