What You Call a Color Depends on How You Use It

The Tsimane’ people of the Amazon (pronounced chee-MAH-nay, roughly) hunt, farm, and forage. They don’t have a lot of technology. And if you talk to them about the colors they see in the world, they say some pretty interesting things. For objects that are what an English speaker would probably describe as white, black, or …

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