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

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages) Series Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography Critical global health. 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 Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/arr/4.0/legalcode Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Medical anthropology -- Malawi AIDS (Disease) -- Research -- Malawi -- Methodology HIV infections -- Research -- Malawi -- Methodology Anthropology, Medical -- statistics & numerical data Research Design -- standards Data Interpretation, Statistical HIV Infections -- ethnology Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- ethnology POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Medical anthropology Aids Anthropologische Medizin Bevölkerungsentwicklung Datenerhebung Datenverarbeitung Ethnomethodologie Feldforschung Gesundheitswesen Glaubwürdigkeit HIV-Infektion Längsschnittuntersuchung Quantitative Methode SUBJECT Malawi Subject Malawi Malawi Form Electronic book LC no. 2018000301 ISBN 9780822371823 0822371820 9780822370741 0822370743

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