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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主要作者: Biruk, Crystal (Author)
格式: 電子 電子書
語言:英语
出版: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
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書本目錄:
  • 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.