There is a need to facilitate the incorporation of interdisciplinary methodologies in fieldwork, particularly of topics on human-environmental interaction

A website where descriptions, interview and data collection sheets can be downloaded. An example for a site to assist ethnomedical research could include information on household surveys, knowledge transmission models, public health, explanatory models of illness, biomedical, pathology, habitat surveys etc

For a site like that to be successful, an initial input by some experienced field workers would be required in order to set the pace and format for information contributions. Also for the site to be popular it will need to offer practical solutions to problems commonly experienced in the field

A forum of users interested in particular fields of anthropology could advise on comments posted by the fieldworker online

However, there is a big issue on intellectual property rights particularly if the topic of research is commodifiable

--Sonia Vougioukalou 18-Jun-2007 16:20 BST

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