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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Published in:Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Main Author: Svanberg, Ingvar
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Published: BioMed Central 2014
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Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4016620
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spelling ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:4016620 2023-05-15T16:11:14+02:00 Encounters with fierce dogs and itchy bedbugs: why my first field work failed Svanberg, Ingvar 2014-05-02 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4016620 https://doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-10-39 en eng BioMed Central http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-10-39 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. CC-BY CC0 PDM Review Text 2014 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-10-39 2014-05-18T00:46:48Z 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. Text Faroes PubMed Central (PMC) Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 10 1 39
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