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Richard Robbins (born 30 March 1940) is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. [1]
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Richard Robbins (born 30 March 1940) is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. [1]
He received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Rutgers University, a Master of Arts in Anthropology from New York University, and a Ph.D in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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