Towards an Anthropology of Data |
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| Editor:
| Douglas-Jones, Rachel
Walford, Antonia
Seaver, Nick |
| Series title: | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-119-81676-8 |
| Publication Date: | May 2021 |
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $34.95 |
Book Description:
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This volume presents a set of theoretically inventive pieces that engage with data across its many locations, from government databases to ecological field stations, from kitchen tables to concrete bunkers.
- Contributors demonstrate how thinking with data can be conceptually generative for anthropology, prompting us to reconsider our understanding of topics including bodies, persons, and the social itself
- Shows how 'big' data which may have once seemed...
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This volume presents a set of theoretically inventive pieces that engage with data across its many locations, from government databases to ecological field stations, from kitchen tables to concrete bunkers.
- Contributors demonstrate how thinking with data can be conceptually generative for anthropology, prompting us to reconsider our understanding of topics including bodies, persons, and the social itself
- Shows how 'big' data which may have once seemed limited to business or high tech, ethnographers are now finding data - and its attendant values and practices - in their field sites around the world
- Examines how data has motivated a sweep of dystopian visions, signaling the invasion of privacy, political manipulation, or shadowy data doubles
- Discusses how anthropologists have been cautious in taking data itself as an object of theoretical interest, even as the effects of data become manifest in our ethnographies
- By putting data in its place, the chapters collected here develop conceptual tools that will prove useful for anthropologists who find 'data' in their data