Considerations for Collecting Freelists in the Field: Examples from Ethobotany

Field Methods

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 219-234

  Quinlan, Marsha ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

elicitation; ethnobotany; ethnopharmacology; free recall; freelist

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750145172     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X05277460     Document Type: Article

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