Cecil H. Brown

Cecil H. Brown (born 1944) is an American linguist and anthropologist. He is a distinguished research professor emeritus of anthropology at Northern Illinois University.^[1] His work relates to comparative linguistics and ethnobiology.^[2]

Cecil H. Brown
Born	Cecil Hooper Brown II 1944 United States
Occupation(s)	Linguist, anthropologist
Academic background
Alma mater	Tulane University
Academic work
Institutions	Northern Illinois University
Main interests	Mayan languages

Education

Brown attended Tulane University for his undergraduate and graduate degrees, receiving a B.A. in 1966 and PhD in 1971.^[3] As an undergraduate, he studied British social anthropology abroad for one year. He then became interested in the work of Stephen A. Tyler and the new field of cognitive anthropology. Brown conducted fieldwork with the Huastec people, a Mayan group of northern Veracruz, Mexico. He investigated cognitive anthropology of kinship, color, disease, plants, and animals. In 1982 he attended his first ethnobiology meeting in Colombia.^[4]

Career

In 1998, Brown became a distinguished research professor.^[5] He was a visiting scientist in the linguistics department at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in 2001.^[6] After 32 years of teaching anthropology and linguistics, Brown retired from teaching in 2002.^[2][1] In 2015, Brown was awarded the Distinguished Ethnobiologist Award from the Society of Ethnobiology.^[7]

Brown is co-founder of the Automated Similarity Judgment Program (ASJP).^[1]

Selected publications

• Brown, Cecil H. Wittgensteinian linguistics. De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.
• Brown, Cecil H. Lexical acculturation in Native American languages. Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Brown, Cecil H. Language and Living Things. Rutgers University Press, 1984.
• Brown II, Cecil Hooper. An ordinary language approach to transformational grammar and to formal semantic analysis of Huastec terminological systems. Tulane University, 1971.

References

1. Robbeets, Martine; Savelyev, Alexander (2020). The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-880462-8.
2. Tidemann, Sonia; Gosler, Andrew (2010). Ethno-ornithology: Birds, Indigenous Peoples, Culture and Society. Earthscan. ISBN 978-1-84407-783-0.
3. Brown, Cecil H. (Feb 1985). "Mode of Subsistence and Folk Biological Taxonomy [and Comments and Reply]". Current Anthropology. 26 (1): 43–64. doi:10.1086/203224. JSTOR 2742995. S2CID 86054416. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
4. "Cecil Brown". Society of Ethnobiology. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
5. "Past Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professors". Northern Illinois University. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
6. "Cecil H. Brown". Department of Anthropology. Archived from the original on 5 December 2008.
7. "Distinguished Ethnobiologist Award". Society of Ethnobiology. Retrieved 13 December 2022.