GILBERT, William Harlen, Jr. 1904 — 1988. U.S. Anthropologist. 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 hardly anything else (2022).