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On the unraveling of 'revitalization of local health traditions' in India: an ethnographic inquiry.

Arima MishraDevaki Nambiar
Published in: International journal for equity in health (2018)
Were we not enabled by ethnography as a method that changes its shape apace with emerging findings, we would have not been able to comprehensively answer our questions. This is critical because not only was this already a marginalized area of inquiry, but with any other method we risked reinforcing inequities by imposing epistemological and other hierarchies on our participants- whom we would argue were partners - in arriving at our conclusions.
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