Cooking data : culture and politics in an African research world /

Cooking data : culture and politics in an African research world / Crystal Biruk.

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via Duke)
Main Author: Biruk, Crystal (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Series:Critical global health.
Subjects:
Medical anthropology > Malawi.
AIDS (Disease) > Research > Malawi > Methodology.
HIV infections > Research > Malawi > Methodology.
Medical anthropology.
Malawi.
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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