GILBERT, William Harlen, Jr. Covington, co. Kenton, Kentucky 28.7.1904 — Silverspring, co. Montgomery, Maryland 24.3.1988. U.S. Anthropologist. Son of W. H. Gilbert, Sr. (1869–1943) and Martha Virginia Coopes. Ph.D. 1935 Chicago (diss. on Cherokees). In 1936-37 taught Sociology at Auburn University. Later working in Library of Congress.
Publications: Peoples of India. 4+86 p. 21 pl. Smithsonian Inst. ‘War Background Studies’ 18. 1944.
– Caste in India: A Bibliography. 1. 348 p. 1948.
– “The Sinhalese Caste system of Central and Southern Ceylon”, Ceylon Historical Journal 2, Special Suppl 1953, ??-??.
– Also wrote on Amerindian peoples (Cherokees).
Sources: Numerous references to his Amerindian publications in Internet, but little else (2022); findagrave with two photos; parents in ancestors.familysearch.org.
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