title: Encounters with fierce dogs and itchy bedbugs: why my first field work failed.
abstract: This essay, which is the fifth in the series "Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Personal Experiences in Ethnobiology", is a personal reminiscence by the researcher on his first field experience in Turkey in the late 1970s, which was a failure from an ethnobiological point of view but a success for a social scientist pursuing Turkic studies. The author later returned to ethnobiology during subsequent fieldwork on the Faroes.
authors.affiliation: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, Box 514, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden. ingvar.svanberg@ucrs.uu.se.
authors.forename: Ingvar
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Svanberg
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D001511:Bedbugs; D004285:Dogs; D019448:Ethnobotany; D005007:Ethnology; D006801:Humans; D014421:Turkey