Cooking Data : Culture and Politics in an African Research World /
Biruk, Crystal,
Cooking Data : Culture and Politics in an African Research World / Crystal Biruk. - 1 online resource (296 pages). - Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Open Access
"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."--
9780822371823
Quantitative Methode
Längsschnittuntersuchung
HIV-Infektion
Glaubwürdigkeit
Gesundheitswesen
Feldforschung
Ethnomethodologie
Datenverarbeitung
Datenerhebung
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
Anthropologische Medizin
Aids
Medical anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
Infections à VIH--Recherche--Methodologie.--Malawi
Sida--Recherche--Methodologie.--Malawi
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--ethnology
HIV Infections--ethnology
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Research Design--standards
Anthropology, Medical--statistics & numerical data
HIV infections--Research--Methodology.--Malawi
AIDS (Disease)--Research--Methodology.--Malawi
Medical anthropology--Malawi.
Malawi
Malawi.
Malawi
Electronic books.
Cooking Data : Culture and Politics in an African Research World / Crystal Biruk. - 1 online resource (296 pages). - Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Open Access
"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."--
9780822371823
Quantitative Methode
Längsschnittuntersuchung
HIV-Infektion
Glaubwürdigkeit
Gesundheitswesen
Feldforschung
Ethnomethodologie
Datenverarbeitung
Datenerhebung
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
Anthropologische Medizin
Aids
Medical anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
Infections à VIH--Recherche--Methodologie.--Malawi
Sida--Recherche--Methodologie.--Malawi
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--ethnology
HIV Infections--ethnology
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Research Design--standards
Anthropology, Medical--statistics & numerical data
HIV infections--Research--Methodology.--Malawi
AIDS (Disease)--Research--Methodology.--Malawi
Medical anthropology--Malawi.
Malawi
Malawi.
Malawi
Electronic books.