Cal Biruk (Crystal)

Cooking Data

Culture and Politics in an African Research World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Crystal Biruk is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Oberlin College.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780822370741
• ISBN-10: 0822370743
• Artikelnr.: 48250588

Autorenporträt

Cal (Crystal) Biruk is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Oberlin College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. An Anthropologist among the Demographers: Assembling Data in
Survey Research Worlds  1
1. The Office in the Field: Building Survey Infrastructures  31
2. Living Project to Project: Brokering Local Knowledge in the Field  67
3. Clean Data, Messy Gifts: Soap-for-Information Transactions in the Field 
100
4. Materializing Clean Data in the Field  129
5. When Numbers Travel: The Politics of Making Evidence-Based Policy  166
Conclusion. Anthropology in and of (Critical) Global Health  200
Appendix. Sample Household Roster Questions  217
Notes  223
Bibliography  237
Index  269