RYAN, Bryce Finley. Youngstown, Ohio 1911? — Miami 17.4.2005, when 94. U.S. Sociologist. Studied at University of Washington (B.A.), at universities in Texas (M.A.) and Louisiana and at Harvard (M.A. 1937). Ph.D. 1940 Harvard. Taught at Iowa State University, Rutgers University, at University of Ceylon in Peradeniya and Wayne State University. From 1957 Professor at Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Miami, retired in 1976.
Publications: Sociological diss. about American high school students. 1940.
– Caste in Modern Ceylon: The Sinhalese System in Transition. 9+371 p. New Brunswick, NJ 1953.
– Sinhalese Village. 229 p. Coral Gables, Florida 1958; books not related with South Asia.
Sources: Miami Herald 21.4.2005 in legacy.com; stray notes in Internet.
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