Cal Biruk (Crystal)

Cooking Data

Culture and Politics in an African Research World

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Produktbeschreibung

In Cooking Data Crystal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi in which she rethinks how quantitative health data is produced by showing how data production is inevitably entangled with the lives of those who produce it.

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Produktdetails

• Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9780822370895
• ISBN-10: 0822370891
• Artikelnr.: 48251295

Autorenporträt

Cal (Crystal) Biruk

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. An Anthropologist among the Demographers: Assembling Data in
Survey Research Worlds  1
1. The Office in the Field: Building Survey Infrastructures  31
2. Living Project to Project: Brokering Local Knowledge in the Field  67
3. Clean Data, Messy Gifts: Soap-for-Information Transactions in the Field 
100
4. Materializing Clean Data in the Field  129
5. When Numbers Travel: The Politics of Making Evidence-Based Policy  166
Conclusion. Anthropology in and of (Critical) Global Health  200
Appendix. Sample Household Roster Questions  217
Notes  223
Bibliography  237
Index  269