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

@article{citeulike:4411758, 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. 10.1177/0891241607312495}, author = {Zaman, Shahaduz}, citeulike-article-id = {4411758}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891241607312495}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://jce.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/37/2/135}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/0891241607312495}, journal = {Journal of Contemporary Ethnography}, keywords = {anthropology, culture, hospital, native}, month = {April}, number = {2}, pages = {135--154}, posted-at = {2009-04-27 16:51:50}, priority = {5}, title = {Native among the Natives: Physician Anthropologist Doing Hospital Ethnography at Home}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891241607312495}, volume = {37}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4411758 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4411758 N2 - 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. 10.1177/0891241607312495 IS - 2 JF - Journal of Contemporary Ethnography EP - 154 TI - Native among the Natives: Physician Anthropologist Doing Hospital Ethnography at Home VL - 37 SP - 135 KW - anthropology KW - culture KW - hospital KW - native AU - Zaman, Shahaduz PY - 2008/04/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891241607312495 ER -