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

"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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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Biruk, Crystal (Awdur)
Fformat: Electronig eLyfr
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Cyfres:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.