Methods for ethnopharmacological field work
1Department of Anthropology, New School for Social Research, New York, NY 10003.
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
|April 1, 1989
Abstract:
This paper describes the interdisciplinary methods used in the recording and collecting of ethnopharmacological field data. General considerations of procedure and interviewing, the collection of botanical and pharmacological specimens, procedures of data collection in field studies of medicinal plants, and the field screening of drug plants are discussed.
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