Biblio. Year : 1999

Malattie, culture e societa – diseases, cultures and society

For four days, the city of Genoa (Italy) histed over 500 scholars from 60 different countries convening for the 3rd European colloquium on Ethnofarmacology (after Metz and Heidelberg) and the 1st International Conference of Anthropology and History of..

Drugs of Natural Origin – A Textbook of Pharmacognosy

Natural materials of plant, microbial or animal origin are an important source of modern drugs. This book deals with such materials with a focus on the pure, pharmacologically active compounds which can be isolated from them. The occurrence,..

Essential Ethnographic methods – Observations, Interviews ans Questionnaires

Essential ethnographic methods provides the reader with an introduction to participant and non-participant observation, interviewing and ethnographically-informed survey research, including structured interviews and questionnaires. These are the basic building blocks of ethnographic data collecting, providing researchs with answers..

Designing & conducting ethnographic research

The Ethnographer’s Toolkit begins with an overview volume that defines the ethnographic enterprise, links research strategies to theoretical paradigms, and outlines the ways in which an ethnographic study can be designed. Using practical, straight-forward language, the authors of..