Evaluating indices of traditional ecological knowledge : a methodological contribution
Reyes-García, Victoria (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Vadez, Vincent (Brandeis University (Waltham, Estats Units d'Amèrica))
Tanner, Susan (Northwestern University. Department of Anthropology (Evanston, Estats Units d'Amèrica))
McDade, Thomas (Northwestern University. Department of Anthropology (Evanston, Estats Units d'Amèrica))
Huanca, Tomás (Brandeis University (Waltham, Estats Units d'Amèrica))
Leonard, William R. (Northwestern University. Department of Anthropology (Evanston, Estats Units d'Amèrica))

Date:	2006
Abstract:	Background: New quantitative methods to collect and analyze data have produced novel findings in ethnobiology. A common application of quantitative methods in ethnobiology is to assess the traditional ecological knowledge of individuals. Few studies have addressed reliability of indices of traditional ecological knowledge constructed with different quantitative methods. Methods: We assessed the associations among eight indices of traditional ecological knowledge from data collected from 650 native Amazonians. We computed Spearman correlations, Chronbach's alpha, and principal components factor analysis for the eight indices. Results: We found that indices derived from different raw data were weakly correlated (rho<0. 5), whereas indices derived from the same raw data were highly correlated (rho.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Published in:	Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine, Vol. 2, N. 21 (April 2006) , p. 1-9, ISSN 1746-4269

DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-2-21
PMID: 16638119

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