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Ethnoecology - The best medicine against allergy?

Author: Zsolt Molnár

Published in: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine | Issue 1/2015

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This essay, which is the 6^th in the series “Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Ethnobiologists and Their First Time in the Field”, is a personal reflection by the researcher on his first field experiences with ethnobiology. Author writes on how Hungarian herders in the Hortobágy salt steppes and Csángó people in the Carpathian mountains changed his views on landscape, vegetation, local people, traditional small-scale grassland management and finally, ecology and nature conservation.

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Title: Ethnoecology - The best medicine against allergy?
Author: Zsolt Molnár
Publication date: 01-12-2015
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine / Issue 1/2015
Electronic ISSN: 1746-4269
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-015-0013-7

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