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Native among the Natives

Physician Anthropologist Doing Hospital Ethnography at Home

Shahaduz Zaman

BRAC University, Bangladesh, zaman.s{at}bracuniversity.net

The focus of the present article is the methodological aspects of conducting ethnography in a district level hospital in Bangladesh, the first of its kind in the country. Ethnographies in non-Western medical settings are rare. I describe the experience of gaining entry and negotiating my way through diverse gatekeepers, building rapport and trust with the doctors, the staff community, and the patients. I share the challenges of being native among the natives as my "nativity" was twofold: as a Bangladeshi doing fieldwork in the country, and as a medical doctor studying a hospital, the domain of doctors.

Key Words: ethnography • Bangladesh • hospital • physician • native

This version was published on April 1, 2008

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 37, No. 2, 135-154 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0891241607312495
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