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Colour categories in a stone-age tribe

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  • Jules Davidoff

    (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

  • Ian Davies

    (University of Surrey)

  • Debi Roberson

    (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Abstract

The Dani of Irian Jaya are a stone-age Melanesian people who have provided an empirical basis for the study of cross-cultural perception and cognition1,2,3. Although they had only two terms for describing colour, the Dani memory for colour seemed to be much like that of modern English speakers. We have investigated another stone-age culture, the Berinmo of Papua New Guinea, for the way in which they categorize colours, but the results do not support the idea that colour categories could be universal.

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  • Jules Davidoff & Ian Davies & Debi Roberson, 1999. "Colour categories in a stone-age tribe," Nature, Nature, vol. 398(6724), pages 203-204, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:398:y:1999:i:6724:d:10.1038_18335
    DOI: 10.1038/18335
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    1. Yasmina Jraissati & Igor Douven, 2017. "Does optimal partitioning of color space account for universal color categorization?," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(6), pages 1-19, June.
    2. Dimitris Mylonas & Serge Caparos & Jules Davidoff, 2022. "Augmenting a colour lexicon," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 9(1), pages 1-12, December.
    3. Youping Xiao & Christopher Kavanau & Lauren Bertin & Ehud Kaplan, 2011. "The Biological Basis of a Universal Constraint on Color Naming: Cone Contrasts and the Two-Way Categorization of Colors," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 6(9), pages 1-11, September.

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