Native among the Natives
- 4 February 2008
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
- Vol. 37 (2), 135-154
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0891241607312495
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.Keywords
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