Brent Berlin

Overton Brent Berlin (* 1936 ) is an American anthropologist . Best known is his collaboration with linguist Paul Kay on color names , Basic Color Terms : Their Universality and Evolution (1969).

Berlin received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1964. PhD. He was Professor of Anthropology at the University of Georgia .

In 1980 Berlin was elected to the National Academy of Sciences , 1981 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In 1999 he received the Fyssen Foundation's International Prize, endowed with 200,000 French francs .

2008 Distinguished Economic Botanist Award (together with his wife)

Publications

• Berlin, Brent: Ethnobiological classification: principles of categorization of plants and animals in traditional societies . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1992, ISBN 0-691-09469-1 .
• Berlin, Brent: Huambisa Sound Symbolism . In: Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols and John J. Ohala (Eds.): Sound symbolism . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England] 1995.
• with Elois Ann Berlin: Medical ethnobiology of the Highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico: the gastrointestinal diseases . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1996.

Web links

• http://obberlin.myweb.uga.edu/teaching.html

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( ISBN 1575861623 )  
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved March 23, 2018 . 
4. ↑ http://www.uga.edu/news/newsbureau/releases/1999releases/brent_berlin.html ( Memento from February 12, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ UGA anthropologists receive Distinguished Economic Botanist Award from national society - February 28, 2008