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Encounters with fierce dogs and itchy bedbugs: why my first field work failed

This essay, which is the fifth in the series “Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Personal Experiences in Ethnobiology”, is a personal reminiscence by the researcher on his first field experience in Turkey in the late 1970s, which was a failure from an ethnobiological point of view but a su...

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Autor principal: Svanberg, Ingvar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4016620/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24885471
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-10-39
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spelling pubmed-40166202014-05-11 Encounters with fierce dogs and itchy bedbugs: why my first field work failed Svanberg, Ingvar J Ethnobiol Ethnomed Review This essay, which is the fifth in the series “Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Personal Experiences in Ethnobiology”, is a personal reminiscence by the researcher on his first field experience in Turkey in the late 1970s, which was a failure from an ethnobiological point of view but a success for a social scientist pursuing Turkic studies. The author later returned to ethnobiology during subsequent fieldwork on the Faroes. BioMed Central 2014-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4016620/ /pubmed/24885471 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-10-39 Text en Copyright © 2014 Svanberg; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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