Brent Berlin is an American anthropologist, most famous for his work with linguist Paul Kay on color, Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (1969) (ISBN 1575861623).

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.

He originally received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1964.

Select publications

• Berlin, Brent. 1992. Ethnobiological classification: principles of categorization of plants and animals in traditional societies. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691094691

• Berlin, Brent. 1995. "Huambisa Sound Symbolism." In Sound symbolism, edited by Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols, and John J. Ohala. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press.

• Berlin, Elois Ann, and Brent Berlin. 1996. Medical ethnobiology of the Highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico: the gastrointestinal diseases. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

v • d • e Ethnobiology Primary Subdisciplines Ethnobotany · Ethnozoology · Ethnoecology Other Subdisciplines Ethnoentomology · Ethnoherpetology · Ethnolichenology · Ethnomycology · Ethnoornithology Correlated Fields Cultural ecology · Ecological anthropology · Ethnoarchaeology · Historical ecology · Human ecology · Paleoethnobotany · Zooarchaeology Notable Ethnobiologists Brent Berlin · Wade Davis · Roy Ellen · Gary P. Nabhan · Darrell Posey · Richard E. Schultes · Manuel Torres · Nancy Turner Category · Project

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