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

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Ingvar Svanberg¹ 

[1] Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, Box 514, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden

关键词: Cultural zoology;    Companion animals;    Fieldwork;    Ethnography;    Ethnobiology;   

Others  :  861495
DOI  :  10.1186/1746-4269-10-39

 received in 2014-04-04, accepted in 2014-04-04,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Svanberg; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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