"An important contribution to the study of color classification and to cognitive studies in general.... This is a work which all researchers will refer to and consult and which will enter into all anthropological discussions about color classification."

--Per Hage, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Utah

More than 100 indigenous languages are spoken in Mexico and Central America. Each language partitions the color spectrum according to a pattern that is unique in some way. But every local system of color categories also shares characteristics with the systems of...