Who should conduct ethnobotanical studies? Effects of different interviewers in the case of the Chácobo Ethnobotany project, Beni, Bolivia
Autor: | María Soria-Morán, Milton Ortiz-Vaca, Araceli L. Moya-Huanca, Rainer W. Bussmann, Oscar Roca, Erlin Siripi, Bertha Chávez-Moreno, Jorge Soria-Morán, Saúl Chávez, David Ortiz-Álvarez, Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana, Robbie Hart, Gualberto Chávez-Moreno, Gere Ortiz-Soria |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Cultural Studies Adult Male Bolivia Health (social science) Interview Population Ethnobotany 01 natural sciences Effect Modifier Epidemiologic Developmental psychology lcsh:Botany Tribe Humans Traditional knowledge education Aged education.field_of_study Plants Medicinal Ecology Research lcsh:Other systems of medicine Plant collection Middle Aged lcsh:RZ201-999 0104 chemical sciences lcsh:QK1-989 010404 medicinal & biomolecular chemistry Knowledge Complementary and alternative medicine Large study Plant species Female General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Psychology 010606 plant biology & botany |
Zdroj: | Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2018) Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Repositorio Institucional de la Consejería de Sanidad de la Comunidad de Madrid Consejería de Sanidad de la Comunidad de Madrid |
ISSN: | 1746-4269 |
Popis: | Background That the answers elicited through interviews may be influenced by the knowledge of the interviewer is accepted across disciplines. However, in ethnobotany, there is little evidence to quantitatively assess what impact this effect may have. We use the results of a large study of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of plant use of the Chácobo and Pacahuara of Beni, Bolivia, to explore the effects of interviewer identity and knowledge upon the elicited plant species and uses. Methods The Chácobo are a Panoan speaking tribe of about 1000 members (300+ adults) in Beni, Bolivia. Researchers have collected anthropological and ethnobotanical data from the Chácobo for more than a century. Here, we present a complete ethnobotanical inventory of the entire adult Chácobo population, with interviews and plant collection conducted directly by Chácobo counterparts, with a focus on the effects caused by external interviewers. Results Within this large study, with a unified training for interviewers, we did find that different interviewers did elicit different knowledge sets, that some interviewers were more likely to elicit knowledge similar to their own, and that participants interviewed multiple times often gave information as different as that from two randomly chosen participants. Conclusions Despite this, we did not find this effect to be overwhelming—the amount of knowledge an interviewer reported on the research subject had comparatively little effect on the amount of knowledge that interviewer recorded from others, and even those interviewers who tended to elicit similar answers from participants also elicited a large percentage of novel information. |
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