Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World

by Crystal Biruk and Cal (Crystal) Biruk

Book Overview

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 are never clean; rather, they are always "cooked" during their production and inevitably entangled with the lives of those who produce them. Examining how the relationships...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822370743
• ISBN13: 9780822370741
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"