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Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 37, No. 2, 135-154 (2008) DOI: 10.1177/0891241607312495 Native among the NativesPhysician Anthropologist Doing Hospital Ethnography at HomeBRAC 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
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