Brent Berlin
Overton Brent Berlin (born 1936) is an American anthropologist, most noted for his work with linguist Paul Kay on color, and his ethnobiological research among the Maya of Chiapas, Mexico.He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1964. Until recently, Berlin was Graham Perdue Professor of Anthropology at the University of Georgia, where he was also director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and co-director for the Laboratories of Ethnobiology.
His work alongside Paul Kay on the 1969 publication of ''Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution'' built on the ideas of Lazarus Geiger in the field of color terminology research and has been highly influential in anthropology, linguistics and cognitive sciences. Berlin and Kay concluded that the number of basic color terms in the world's languages are limited and center on certain focal colors, assumed to be cognitively hardwired.
He led the Maya ICGB project, a bioprospecting consortium, supported by the Biodiversity Program for the National Institutes of Health, which was closed in 2001 after accusations of failure to obtain adequate informed consent from the Maya community from which he obtained indigenous knowledge. These allegations were primarily driven by a Canadian-based political activist organization, known at the time as RAFI. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1981. Provided by Wikipedia
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Speculations on the Growth of Ethnobotanical Nomenclature. Working Papers of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory, No. 39 by Berlin, Brent
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A Universalist-Evolutionary Approach in Ethnographic Semantics. Working Paper of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory, No. 27 / by Berlin, Brent
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Lexical Retention and Cultural Significance in Tzeltal-Tzotzil Comparative Ethnobotany. Working Papers of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory, No. 29 by Berlin, Brent
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Tzeltal numeral classifiers : a study in ethnographic semantics / by Brent Berlin. by Berlin, Brent
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Universality and evolution of basic color terms. working paper number 1 by Berlin, Brent
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Ethnobiological classification : principles of categorization of plants and animals in traditional societies / by Berlin, Brent
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Basic color terms : their universality and evolution / by Berlin, Brent
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Ethnobiological Classification : Principles of Categorization of Plants and Animals in Traditional Societies. by Berlin, Brent
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Medical ethnobiology of the Highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico : the gastrointestinal diseases / by Berlin, Elois Ann, 1937-, Berlin, Brent
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Principles of Tzeltal plant classification an introduction to the botanical ethnography of a Mayan-speaking people of highland Chiapas / by Berlin, Brent, Breedlove, Dennis Eugene, Raven, Peter H.
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Medical ethnobiology of the Highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico : the gastrointestinal diseases / by Berlin, Elois Ann, 1937-
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Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology : Health and Illness in the World's Cultures /
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