Cooking Data Culture and Politics in an African Research World

COOKING DATA is an ethnographic study of how demographic data is collected, handled, processed, and manipulated by fieldworkers, researchers, policymakers, and NGOs in Malawi and internationally. Crystal Biruk's fieldwork with people at all levels of major survey projects explores how survey-ba...

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Main Author: Biruk, Crystal (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC Duke University Press 2018
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