Anthropology of Color: Interdisciplinary Multilevel ModelingRobert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei, Don Dedrick The field of color categorization has always been intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary, since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. The main contribution of this book is to foster a new level of integration among different approaches to the anthropological study of color. The editors have put great effort into bringing together research from anthropology, linguistics, psychology, semiotics, and a variety of other fields, by promoting the exploration of the different but interacting and complementary ways in which these various perspectives model the domain of color experience. By so doing, they significantly promote the emergence of a coherent field of the anthropology of color. |
Contents
Individual and population differences in focal colors | 29 |
Mapping into a perceptual color space | 55 |
Controversies of basicness | 75 |
Color term research of Hugo Magnus | 107 |
Color cognition | 123 |
Modeling and measurement | 151 |
The ambiguity of brightness with special reference to Old English | 168 |
Color naming in Estonian and cognate languages | 189 |
Literature orthography | 295 |
Color terms in Colonia Tovar an Alemannisch Enclave in Venezuela | 319 |
Color semiosis | 335 |
The case of Russian | 363 |
Some linguistic evidence | 379 |
Metaphors as cognitive models in Halkomelem color adjectives | 395 |
Color terms in fashion | 421 |
The coloring of the face in the Czech | 441 |
Color terms in ancient Egyptian and Coptic | 211 |
Basic color term evolution in light of ancient evidence from the Near East | 229 |
Basic color terms from ProtoSemitic to Old Ethiopic | 247 |
Towards a history and typology of color categorization in colloquial Arabic | 263 |
Gender age and descriptive color terminology in some Caucasus cultures | 457 |
Index | 481 |
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