title: Review of C. L. Hardin and Luissa Maffi, Editors, Color categories in thought and language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 & Robert MacLaury, Color and cognition in Mesoamerica: Constructing categories as vantages. Austin: University of Texas creator: Dedrick, Don subject: Perceptual Cognitive Psychology subject: Philosophy of Mind description: In a message posted to one of the cognitive science discussion groups the author asked, to paraphrase roughly, what should be read to get an up-to-date account of research into color naming? My advice is (and was) to consider the two books under review here: C. L. Hardin and Luisa Maffi’s excellent collection of essays on color language research; Robert MacLaury’s magnum opus on color naming and cognition. date: 1997-09 type: Preprint type: NonPeerReviewed format: text/html identifier: http://cogprints.org/372/1/review.html identifier: Dedrick, Don (1997) Review of C. L. Hardin and Luissa Maffi, Editors, Color categories in thought and language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 & Robert MacLaury, Color and cognition in Mesoamerica: Constructing categories as vantages. Austin: University of Texas. [Preprint] (Unpublished) relation: http://cogprints.org/372/