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

Abstract 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...

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Main Author: Svanberg, Ingvar
Format: Review
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central Ltd. 2014
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Online Access:http://www.ethnobiomed.com/content/10/1/39
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Summary:Abstract 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.