Brent Berlin
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American anthropologist
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Brent Berlin's Degrees
- PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Overton Brent Berlin 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.
Brent Berlin's Published Works
Published Works
- Ethnobiological Classification: Principles of Categorization of Plants and Animals in Traditional Societies. (1994) (1013)
- Folk Systematics in Relation to Biological Classification and Nomenclature (1973) (253)
- Folk Taxonomies and Biological Classification (1966) (197)
- The Origins of Taxonomy (1971) (141)
- Speculations on the growth of ethnobotanical nomenclature (1972) (73)
- Some Field Methods in Medical Ethnobiology (2005) (50)
- A microbiological evaluation of medicinal plants used by the Maya people of Southern Mexico (1995) (36)
- Spasmolytic activity of medicinal plants used to treat gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases in the Highland of Chiapas. (1995) (27)
- The Growth of Ethnobiological Nomenclature [and Comments and Reply] (1986) (21)
- Some Semantic Features of Reduplication in Tzeltal (1963) (12)
- Categories of Eating in Tzeltal and Navaho (1967) (9)
- Anthropological issues in medical ethnobotany. (1994) (6)
- Plants and humans. (1979) (4)
- Cognitive prototypes in Tzeltal Maya medicinal plant selection (2005) (0)
- Science ≠ imperialism: There are nontrivial constraints on color naming (1997) (0)
- Indian names for plants and animals among Californian and other western North American tribes By C. Hart Merriam (review) (2015) (0)
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