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1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages)
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
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9780822371823
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0822371820
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9780822370741
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0822370743
Series Statement:
Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Content:
"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; rather, it is always 'cooked' during its production and inevitably entangled with the lives of those who produce it. Examining how the relationships among fieldworkers, supervisors, respondents, and foreign demographers shape data, Biruk examines the ways in which units of information--such as survey questions and numbers written onto questionnaires by fieldworkers--acquire value as statistics that go on to shape national AIDS policy. Her approach illustrates how on-the-ground dynamics and research cultures mediate the production of global health statistics in ways that impact local economies and formulations of power and expertise."--
Note:
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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Print version: Biruk, Crystal. Cooking data. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018 ISBN 9780822370741
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English
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