Abstract
This essay represents the first editorial of the series "Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Ethnobiologists and their First Time in the Field". In this memoir, the author details the evolvement and intellectual progression of her research focusing on wild food plant consumption within a remote community in the high steppes of Central Anatolia during the early Nineties. The author conveys a human learning journey as a woman and an ethnobiologist, reflecting on the methodological bottlenecks and solutions during her first ethnographic experience in the field.
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This essay represents the first editorial of the series "Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Ethnobiologists and their First Time in the Field"
Its economy was based on agriculture, basically field cropping and gardening, as well as sheep and cattle husbandry
The area is within the Irano-Turanian floristic region dominated by treeless steppe vegetation
Summary
This essay represents the first editorial of the series "Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Ethnobiologists and their First Time in the Field". I had rented a one-room house in the old section of the village before I went. For a day or two I stayed in the village headman Ismail’s house at nights, while preparing my room.
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