Who should conduct ethnobotanical studies? Effects of different interviewers in the case of the Chácobo Ethnobotany project, Beni, Bolivia

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Paniagua Zambrana, Narel Y ^a   Bussmann, Rainer W ^b   Hart, Robbie E ^c   Moya Huanca, Araceli L ^a   Ortiz Soria, Gere ^d   Ortiz Vaca, Milton ^d   Ortiz Álvarez, David ^d   Soria Morán, Jorge ^d   Soria Morán, María ^e   Chávez, Saúl ^e   Chávez Moreno, Bertha ^f   Chávez Moreno, Gualberto ^f   Roca, Oscar ^g   Siripi, Erlin ^h  

^a Herbario Nacional de Bolivia   (Bolivia)

^b Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales   (Bolivia)

^c MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^d Instituto Linguistico Chácobo   (Bolivia)

^e Comunidad Chácobo de Alto Ivón ^*  (Bolivia)

^f Comunidad Chácobo de Las Limas ^*  (Bolivia)

^g Comunidad Chácobo de Firmeza ^*  (Bolivia)

^h Comunidad Nueva Unión ^*  (Bolivia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SCIENTIST; SPEECH; AGED; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; BOLIVIA; ECOLOGY; EFFECT MODIFIER, EPIDEMIOLOGIC; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 85041054479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13002-018-0210-2     Document Type: Article

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