The influence of visual stimuli in ethnobotanical data collection using the listing task method
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2007-02-01
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Miranda, Tatiana Mota
De Mello Amorozo, Maria Christina
Govone, Jose Silvio
Miranda, Daniela Mota
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Sage Publications Inc
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The listing task, a method used in social and behavioral sciences, is frequently used in ethnobotanical research to constructfolk taxonomies and select relevant itemsfor subsequent research. The objective of the present study was to determine whether visual stimuli are associated with responses to the theme plants or if context influences the answers. Interviews were conducted with 400 women in Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil, in four different locations: three with a visible presence of plants (a plant store, a supermarket, and a public plaza) and one with no plants (a street corner in the center of the city). The women were asked to name plants. Analysis indicates that visual stimuli influenced responses and that this is more marked in the plant store than in the other locations. The plants cited most often-roses, orchids, ferns, violets, and daisies-were, with little variation, the same in all the locales studied.
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ethnobotany, field methods, listing tasks, visual stimuli
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Field Methods. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications Inc., v. 19, n. 1, p. 76-86, 2007.