Cooking Data : Culture and Politics in an African Research World /

Cooking Data : Culture and Politics in an African Research World /

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"In Cooking Data Crystal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi to rethink the production of quantitative health data. While research practices are often understood within a clean/dirty binary, Biruk shows that data is never clean; rathe...

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Main Author: Biruk, Crystal (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Quantitative Methode
Längsschnittuntersuchung
HIV-Infektion
Glaubwürdigkeit
Gesundheitswesen
Feldforschung
Ethnomethodologie
Datenverarbeitung
Datenerhebung
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
Anthropologische Medizin
Aids
Medical anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Infections à VIH > Recherche > Malawi > Methodologie.
Sida > Recherche > Malawi > Methodologie.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > ethnology
HIV Infections > ethnology
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Research Design > standards
Anthropology, Medical > statistics & numerical data
HIV infections > Research > Malawi > Methodology.
AIDS (Disease) > Research > Malawi > Methodology.
Medical anthropology > Malawi.
Malawi
Malawi.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • The office in the field: building survey infrastructures
  • Living project to project: brokering local knowledge in the field
  • Clean data, messy gifts: soap-for-information transactions in the field
  • Materializing clean data in the field
  • When numbers travel: the politics of making evidence-based policy
  • Conclusion: Anthropology in and of (critical) global health.

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