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Nationality
  
American

Known for
  
Human Universals

Fields
  
Anthropology

Name
  
Donald Brown

Books
  
Human Universals

Role
  
Anthropologist


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Institutions
  
University of California

Albums
  
Fast Forward to the Past, Piano Short Stories, French Kiss

Similar People
  
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Institution
  
University of California

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Donald E. Brown (born 1934) is an American professor of anthropology (emeritus).

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Work

He worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is best known for his theoretical work regarding the existence, characteristics and relevance of universals of human nature. In his best-known work, Human Universals (1991), he says these universals, "comprise those features of culture, society, language, behavior, and psyche for which there are no known exceptions." He is quoted at length by Steven Pinker in an appendix to The Blank Slate (2002), where Pinker cites some of the hundreds of universals listed by Brown. In area studies his doctoral research on the structure and history of Brunei was foundational.

Books

  • Brunei: The Structure and History of Bornean Malay Sultanate. Brunei Museum, 1970.
  • Hierarchy, History, and Human Nature: The Social Origins of Historical Consciousness. University of Arizona Press, 1988.
  • Human Universals. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991.

    • Articles

  • 'Human Nature and History'. History and Theory 38 (1999): 138-157.
  • 'Human Universals and their Implications'. In N. Roughley (ed.), Being humans: Anthropological Universality and Particularity in Transdisplinary Perspectives. New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2000.
  • 'Human Universals, Human Nature & Human Culture'. Daedalus 133 (2004): 4, 47.

    • Encyclopedia entries

  • 'Human Universals'. In Robert A. Wilson and Frank C. Keil (eds). The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1999.
  • 'Human Universals'. Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. New York: Henry Holt. Vol. 2, pp. 607-612.
  • 'Human Universals'. Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia. Eds. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Pp. 410-413.

    • Reviews

  • Christopher Boehm. 'Human Universals: Donald E. Brown'. American Anthropologist 94 (1992): 742-743.
  • Walter J. Lonner. 'Human Universals: Donald E. Brown'. American Ethnologist 21 (1994): 920-921.

    • References

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