Brent Berlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3615550 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brent Berlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brent |
| FAMILY NAME | Berlin |
| SIGNATURE | BERLIN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 803 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
La Flora Común es la Flora Medicinal
Este ponencia se hace distinción definitiva entre el conocimiento especial o secreto y el conocimiento popular de las especies de plantas medicinales que forman la base de la herbolaria empírica de los tzeltales y tzotziles de los Altos de Chiapas. Pretendemos demostrar que la herbolaria maya consiste principalmente de la flora común de la región. Además, estas especies están reconocidas por la población en general, no solamente por unas especial…
Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification
Esbozo De La Fonología Del Tzeltal De Tenejapa, Chiapas
Breve descripción sobre el sistema fonológico del tzetazal de Tenejapa
Peer Reviewers
The First Congress of Ethnozoological Nomenclature
Folk names for fundamental ethnobiological categories have been shown to be governed by regular nomenclatural principles. Two principles at work in ethnozoological nomenclature - onomatopoeia and metaphorical description of some observable property of the organism - are fairly well established as the basis for naming many folk genera. A third but less understood principle is that associated with what has been called sound symbolism. In the langua…
Some Field Methods in Medical Ethnobiology
The authors provide a summary of methods that they have used in their long-term interdisciplinary research that incorporates a series of semi-independent, complementary methods of data collection derived from medical anthropology, ethnobotany, and ethnopharmacology. Discussion begins with the first step in research with human subjects, the acquisition of prior informed consent; they then outline the theoretical postulates underlying their methodo…
Community Autonomy and the Maya ICBG Project in Chiapas, Mexico
The autonomy of indigenous and local communities is widely recognized by international, national, and local laws and customs. This autonomy includes the recognized rights of communities to grant permission to enter into agreements for access to their resources, including the commercial use of these resources based on fair and equitable benefit-sharing arrangements. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and their allies have questioned the autonomy…
NGOs and the process of prior informed consent in bioprospecting research
In 1998, a 5-year bioprospecting project that came to be known as the Maya ICBG was initiated among the Maya communities of the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. The project was funded by agencies of the US government - the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Agriculture. Project personnel were drawn from a major US university, a federal Mexican research institution, a small British pharmaceutical …
On Maya Medicine and the Biomedical Gaze
Ethnobiological Classification
Sound symbolism
Sound symbolism is the study of the relationship between the sound of an utterance and its meaning. In this interdisciplinary collection of new studies, twenty-four leading scholars discuss the role of sound symbolism in a theory of language. They consider sound symbolic processes in a wide range of languages from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North and South America. Beginning with an evocative typology of sound symbolic processes, they g…
Ethnobiological Classification
Ethnobiological Classification
Biocultural Implications of Systems of Color Naming
Preliminary analysis of color naming data from 111 languages in the World Color Survey confirms the main lines of the original Berlin and Kay hypothesis regarding the existence of semantic universals in basic color lexicons. The analysis further shows that visual physiology plays a role in the evolutionary development of basic color vocabularies, constraining the possible composite categories to a small number of those theoretically possible. One…
The Correspondence of Jivaroan to Scientific Ornithology
Previous studies offolk biological classification (Diamond 1966; Bulmer 1967, 1970; Berlin, Breedlove, and Raven 1973, 1974; Hunn 1975) have documented a strong correspondence between the ways folk and scientific systems of biological classification delineate natural discontinuities: folk and scientist alike recognize substantially the same categories ofplants and animals. These studies have used methods that assume that all native informants agr…
The Growth of Ethnobiological Nomenclature [and Comments and Reply]
This paper evaluates Brent Berlin's general principles of folk biological classification and nomenclature in view of evidence from hunter-gatherer groups which has accumulated over the past decade. In particular it focuses on his proposals concerning the growth and development of ethnobiological nomenclature. One proposal is that generic/type-specific polysemy (e.g., use of a single word to denote both oak tree in general and a single species of …
La classificazione etnobiologica
Indian Names for Plants and Animals among Californian and Other Western North American Tribes
The Concept of Rank in Ethnobiological Classification
Data from Aguaruna Jívaro folk botany provide evidence for the concept of rank in ethnobiological classification, Aguaruna plant taxa can be naturally accommodated into one of six proposed ethnobiological ranks which have been called kingdom (the unique beginner), life form, intermediate, generic, specific, and varietal. The taxonomic, biological, nomenclatural, and psychological characteristics associated with taxa of each rank are described. Th…
Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification
Aguaruna color categories1
The basic color categories of the Aguaruna Jívaro are described in detail, and the influence of culture contact is explored. Methodological problems and new elicitation procedures are discussed. Finally, some elaboration on and modification of the Berlin and Kay basic color term theory is suggested
Further Notes on Covert Categories and Folk Taxonomies
Folk Systematics in Relation to Biological Classification and Nomenclature
The literature on effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity is huge. It is also very diverse, with different authors measuring fragmentation in different ways and, as a consequence, drawing different conclusions regarding both the ...Read More
Basic Color Terms
General Principles of Classification and Nomenclature in Folk Biology
Since about 1954, modern field research has been carried out by a number of ethnographers and biologists in an effort to understand more fully the nature of folk biological classification. Much of this work has been devoted to studies dealing with the naming and classification of plants and animals in non-Western societies. It has now become apparent that several important and far reaching generalizations can be formulated which promise to throw …
General Principles of Classification and Nomenclature in Folk Biology
Since about 1954, modern field research has been carried out by a number of ethnographers and biologists in an effort to understand more fully the nature of folk biological classification. Much of this work has been devoted to studies dealing with the naming and classification of plants and animals in non-Western societies. It has now become apparent that several important and far reaching generalizations can be formulated which promise to throw …
Basic color terms
Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification
Speculations on the growth of ethnobotanical nomenclature
Assuming the ethnobiological classification evolves as a reflection of cultural development, data are presented which suggest an orderly and predictable temporal appearance of ethnobotanical nomenclatural categories. A general correspondence is seen to exist between the number of categories encoded at any point in time in a particular language's history and degree of sociocultural development. The principles of lexical marking are applied to ethn…
Biocultural Implications of Systems of Color Naming
Preliminary analysis of color naming data from 111 languages in the World Color Survey confirms the main lines of the original Berlin and Kay hypothesis regarding the existence of semantic universals in basic color lexicons. The analysis further shows that visual physiology plays a role in the evolutionary development of basic color vocabularies, constraining the possible composite categories to a small number of those theoretically possible. One…
The Concept of Rank in Ethnobiological Classification
Data from Aguaruna Jívaro folk botany provide evidence for the concept of rank in ethnobiological classification, Aguaruna plant taxa can be naturally accommodated into one of six proposed ethnobiological ranks which have been called kingdom (the unique beginner), life form, intermediate, generic, specific, and varietal. The taxonomic, biological, nomenclatural, and psychological characteristics associated with taxa of each rank are described. Th…
Aguaruna color categories1
The basic color categories of the Aguaruna Jívaro are described in detail, and the influence of culture contact is explored. Methodological problems and new elicitation procedures are discussed. Finally, some elaboration on and modification of the Berlin and Kay basic color term theory is suggested
The Growth of Ethnobiological Nomenclature [and Comments and Reply]
This paper evaluates Brent Berlin's general principles of folk biological classification and nomenclature in view of evidence from hunter-gatherer groups which has accumulated over the past decade. In particular it focuses on his proposals concerning the growth and development of ethnobiological nomenclature. One proposal is that generic/type-specific polysemy (e.g., use of a single word to denote both oak tree in general and a single species of …
The First Congress of Ethnozoological Nomenclature
Folk names for fundamental ethnobiological categories have been shown to be governed by regular nomenclatural principles. Two principles at work in ethnozoological nomenclature - onomatopoeia and metaphorical description of some observable property of the organism - are fairly well established as the basis for naming many folk genera. A third but less understood principle is that associated with what has been called sound symbolism. In the langua…
Ethnobiological Classification
The Correspondence of Jivaroan to Scientific Ornithology
Previous studies offolk biological classification (Diamond 1966; Bulmer 1967, 1970; Berlin, Breedlove, and Raven 1973, 1974; Hunn 1975) have documented a strong correspondence between the ways folk and scientific systems of biological classification delineate natural discontinuities: folk and scientist alike recognize substantially the same categories ofplants and animals. These studies have used methods that assume that all native informants agr…
Descriptive Semantics of Tzeltal Numeral Classifiers1
Some Field Methods in Medical Ethnobiology
The authors provide a summary of methods that they have used in their long-term interdisciplinary research that incorporates a series of semi-independent, complementary methods of data collection derived from medical anthropology, ethnobotany, and ethnopharmacology. Discussion begins with the first step in research with human subjects, the acquisition of prior informed consent; they then outline the theoretical postulates underlying their methodo…
Basic Color Terms
Tzeltal Numeral Classifiers
Further Notes on Covert Categories and Folk Taxonomies
Some Semantic Features of Reduplication in Tzeltal
Categories of Eating in Tzeltal and Navaho
NGOs and the process of prior informed consent in bioprospecting research
In 1998, a 5-year bioprospecting project that came to be known as the Maya ICBG was initiated among the Maya communities of the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. The project was funded by agencies of the US government - the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Agriculture. Project personnel were drawn from a major US university, a federal Mexican research institution, a small British pharmaceutical …
On Maya Medicine and the Biomedical Gaze
Basic Color Terms
Preface Introduction 1. The data, hypothesis, and general findings 2. Evolution of basic color terms 3. The data 4. Summary of results and some speculations Appendix I Appendix II Appendix III Appendix IV Notes References Cited Bibliography Index
Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification
A Tzeltal Surname Origin Myth
Some Semantic Features of Reduplication in Tzeltal
Descriptive Semantics of Tzeltal Numeral Classifiers1
Folk Taxonomies and Biological Classification
A sample of 200 native plant names from the Tzeltal-speaking municipio of Tenejapa, Chiapas, Mexico, was found to consist of 41 percent that comprised more than one botanical species, 34 percent with a one-to-one correspondence, and 25 percent that referred to only a part of a botanical species. Cultural significance was least for the plants in the first group, greatest for those in the last group. Over half (60 percent) of the names for which th…
Categories of Eating in Tzeltal and Navaho
Basic color terms
Basic Color Terms
Preface Introduction 1. The data, hypothesis, and general findings 2. Evolution of basic color terms 3. The data 4. Summary of results and some speculations Appendix I Appendix II Appendix III Appendix IV Notes References Cited Bibliography Index
Speculations on the growth of ethnobotanical nomenclature
Assuming the ethnobiological classification evolves as a reflection of cultural development, data are presented which suggest an orderly and predictable temporal appearance of ethnobotanical nomenclatural categories. A general correspondence is seen to exist between the number of categories encoded at any point in time in a particular language's history and degree of sociocultural development. The principles of lexical marking are applied to ethn…
Tzeltal Numeral Classifiers
Folk Systematics in Relation to Biological Classification and Nomenclature
The literature on effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity is huge. It is also very diverse, with different authors measuring fragmentation in different ways and, as a consequence, drawing different conclusions regarding both the ...Read More
Basic Color Terms
General Principles of Classification and Nomenclature in Folk Biology
Since about 1954, modern field research has been carried out by a number of ethnographers and biologists in an effort to understand more fully the nature of folk biological classification. Much of this work has been devoted to studies dealing with the naming and classification of plants and animals in non-Western societies. It has now become apparent that several important and far reaching generalizations can be formulated which promise to throw …
Further Notes on Covert Categories and Folk Taxonomies
Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification
Aguaruna color categories1
The basic color categories of the Aguaruna Jívaro are described in detail, and the influence of culture contact is explored. Methodological problems and new elicitation procedures are discussed. Finally, some elaboration on and modification of the Berlin and Kay basic color term theory is suggested
The Concept of Rank in Ethnobiological Classification
Data from Aguaruna Jívaro folk botany provide evidence for the concept of rank in ethnobiological classification, Aguaruna plant taxa can be naturally accommodated into one of six proposed ethnobiological ranks which have been called kingdom (the unique beginner), life form, intermediate, generic, specific, and varietal. The taxonomic, biological, nomenclatural, and psychological characteristics associated with taxa of each rank are described. Th…
La classificazione etnobiologica
Indian Names for Plants and Animals among Californian and Other Western North American Tribes
The Correspondence of Jivaroan to Scientific Ornithology
Previous studies offolk biological classification (Diamond 1966; Bulmer 1967, 1970; Berlin, Breedlove, and Raven 1973, 1974; Hunn 1975) have documented a strong correspondence between the ways folk and scientific systems of biological classification delineate natural discontinuities: folk and scientist alike recognize substantially the same categories ofplants and animals. These studies have used methods that assume that all native informants agr…
The Growth of Ethnobiological Nomenclature [and Comments and Reply]
This paper evaluates Brent Berlin's general principles of folk biological classification and nomenclature in view of evidence from hunter-gatherer groups which has accumulated over the past decade. In particular it focuses on his proposals concerning the growth and development of ethnobiological nomenclature. One proposal is that generic/type-specific polysemy (e.g., use of a single word to denote both oak tree in general and a single species of …
Biocultural Implications of Systems of Color Naming
Preliminary analysis of color naming data from 111 languages in the World Color Survey confirms the main lines of the original Berlin and Kay hypothesis regarding the existence of semantic universals in basic color lexicons. The analysis further shows that visual physiology plays a role in the evolutionary development of basic color vocabularies, constraining the possible composite categories to a small number of those theoretically possible. One…
Ethnobiological Classification
Ethnobiological Classification
Ethnobiological Classification
Sound symbolism
Sound symbolism is the study of the relationship between the sound of an utterance and its meaning. In this interdisciplinary collection of new studies, twenty-four leading scholars discuss the role of sound symbolism in a theory of language. They consider sound symbolic processes in a wide range of languages from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North and South America. Beginning with an evocative typology of sound symbolic processes, they g…
Sociology (13 works) · History (12 works) · Biology (11 works) · History (11 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (9 works) · Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Ecology (7 works)