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Ethnobiological Research in Public Markets

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Fairs or traditional markets are centers of buying and selling that commercialize plant and animal products and are important for gathering, concentrating, maintaining, and diffusing empirical knowledge about these resources. In this chapter, you will first encounter a brief discussion of questions and hypotheses taken from ethnobiological research on open-air markets. The principal social factors involved in this type of investigation will be presented along with several methodological problems that researchers face while conducting ethnobiological research in centers at which medicinal resources are bought and sold. Finally, practical suggestions and recommendations for conducting rigorous research will be discussed from a scientific viewpoint.

This chapter was compiled from transcriptions of the text originally published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology and titled “Medicinal and magic plants from a public market in Northeastern Brazil,” vol 110, pp 76–91, by Albuquerque et al. (2007), reproduced with permission from the publisher Elsevier (License No. 3071441454661).

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  1. Laboratory of Applied and Theoretical Ethnobiology, Department of Biology, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

    Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

  2. Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Piauí, Bom Jesus, Piauí, Brazil

    Júlio Marcelino Monteiro

  3. Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade de Pernambuco, Nazaré da Mata, Pernambuco, Brazil

    Marcelo Alves Ramos

  4. Laboratório de Produtos Naturais, Departamento de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

    Elba Lucia Cavalcanti de Amorim

  5. Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil

    Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves

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  3. Departamento de Fitotecnia e Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Areia, Paraíba, Brazil

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Albuquerque, U.P., Monteiro, J.M., Ramos, M.A., de Amorim, E.L.C., Alves, R.R.N. (2014). Ethnobiological Research in Public Markets. In: Albuquerque, U., Cruz da Cunha, L., de Lucena, R., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. Springer Protocols Handbooks. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8636-7_23

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