Anthropology of Color

1. Foreword (by Maffi, Luisa); 2. Color naming research in its many forms and guises (by Dedrick, Don); 3. Part I: Color perception; 4. Hue categorization and color naming: Cognition to language to culture (by Bornstein, Marc H.); 5. Individual and population differences in focal colors (by Webster, Michael A.); 6. Russian color names: Mapping into a perceptual color space (by Safuanova, Olga V.); 7. Russian 'blues': Controversies of basicness (by Paramei, Galina V.); 8. Colour term research of Hugo Magnus (by Schontag, Roger); 9. Part II: Color cognition; 10. Categories of desaturated-complex color: Sensorial, perceptual, and cognitive models (by MacLaury, Robert E.); 11. Relative basicness of color terms: Modeling and measurement (by Kerttula, Seija); 12. The ambiguity of brightness (with special reference to Old English) and a new model for colour description in semantics (by Biggam, Carole P.); 13. Color naming in Estonian and cognate languages (by Oja, Vilja); 14. Color terms in ancient Egyptian and Coptic (by Schenkel, Wolfgang); 15. Basic color term evolution in the light of ancient evidence from the Near East (by Warburton, David A.); 16. Basic color terms from Proto-Semitic to Old Ethiopic (by Bulakh, Maria); 17. Towards a history and typology of color categorization in colloquial Arabic (by Borg, Alexander); 18. Japanese color terms, from 400 C.E. to the present: Literature, orthography, and language contact in light of current cognitive theory (by Stanlaw, James); 19. Color terms in Colonia Tovar, an Alemannisch Enclave in Venezuela (by Heinrich, Albert C.); 20. Mien (Yao) color terms (by L-Thongkum, Theraphan); 21. Part III: Color semiosis; 22. The semiosis of Swedish car colour names: Descriptive and amplifying functions (by Bergh, Gunnar); 23. Color and emotions in English (by Steinvall, Anders); 24. Linguistic construal of colors: The case of Russian (by Rakhilina, Ekaterina V.); 25. Color words in painting descriptions: Some linguistic evidence for entity-like conceptualization (by Anishchanka, Alena V.); 26. Metaphors as cognitive models in Halkomelem color adjectives (by Galloway, Brent D.); 27. Prototypical and stereotypical color in Slavic languages: Models based on folklore (by Popovic, Lyudmila); 28. Colour terms in fashion (by Stoeva-Holm, Dessislava); 29. To have color and to have no color: The coloring of the face in the Czech linguistic picture of the world (by Vankova, Irena); 30. Gender, age, and descriptive color terminology in some Caucasus cultures (by Samarina, Liudmila V.); 31. Towards a new topology of colour (by Saunders, Barbara); 32. Index