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COOKING DATA;CULTURE AND POLITICS IN AN AFRICAN RESEARCH WORLD.

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, the author shows that data are never clean; rather, they are always "cooke...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: CAL (CRYSTAL) BIRUK
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: DURHAM : DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2018.
Subjects:
Medical anthropology.
Public health.
Santé publique.
public health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction AN ANTHROPOLOGIST AMONG THE DEMOGRAPHERS Assembling Data in Survey Research Worlds
  • One THE OFFICE IN THE FIELD Building Survey Infrastructures
  • Two LIVING PROJECT TO PROJECT Brokering Local Knowledge in the Field
  • Three CLEAN DATA, MESSY GIFTS Soap-for- Information Transactions in the Field
  • Four MATERIALIZING CLEAN DATA IN THE FIELD
  • Five WHEN NUMBERS TRAVEL The Politics of Making Evidence-Based Policy
  • Conclusion ANTHROPOLOGY IN AND OF (CRITICAL) GLOBAL HEALTH
  • Appendix: sample household roster questions
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index