Practical exercises

The following exercise outlines summarize many of the practicals presented during an upper undergraduate course in ethnobotany at the Department of Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutical Botany of Khon Kaen University. As can be seen from the following list, these exercises focused on techniques and methods commonly used in ethnobotanical field research. Although the content of each outline is variable, you will find information divided into sections such as materials needed, estimated time, directions, results and supplementary readings. The outlines are listed in the order they were presented in the classroom (see course outline for more information). The practical exercises are being edited and updated for future courses, so if you have any suggestions about these outlines, please write to Gary J. Martin at the following e-mail address: peopleandplants@cybernet.net.ma

• Exercise outline 1. Documenting and using field research techniques
• Exercise outline 2. Ethnobotanical data and plant collecting.
• Exercise outline 3. Using a GPS receiver to record coordinates
• Exercise outline 4. Practical on analytical techniques I: Freelisting
• Exercise outline 5. Practical on analytical techniques II: Ranking
• Exercise outline 6. Practical on analytical techniques III: Matrix Comparison
• Exercise outline 7. Analytical techniques IV: Pairwise comparisons
• Exercise outline 8. Sorting: analyzing ethnobiological categorization
• Exercise outline 9. Taxonomies: Analyzing patterns in plant naming
• Exercise outline 10. Using Ethnobotanical CD-ROMs, Databases and Software
• Exercise outline 11. Writing up botanical descriptions of economic plants in English
• Exercise outline 12. Ethnobotany on the Internet

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