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Native among the Natives: Physician Anthropologist Doing Hospital Ethnography at Home

BRAC University, Bangladesh

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: zaman.s{at}bracuniversity.net.

	Abstract

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.

First published on February 4, 2008, doi:10.1177/0891241607312495

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 2008;37:135.

A more recent version of this article appeared on April 1, 2008


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