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"Data is everywhere. While 'big' data 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. Data has motivated a sweep of dystopian visions, signaling the invasion o...
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John Wiley & Sons,
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| Publisher Address: | Chichester, West Sussex : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Special issue series ;
2021 |
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"Data is everywhere. While 'big' data 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. Data has motivated a sweep of dystopian visions, signaling the invasion of privacy, political manipulation, or shadowy data doubles. Yet 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. 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. The 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. 'Data' is a notoriously slippery concept, often signaling claims to remote objectivity and universality; by putting data in its place, the pieces collected here develop conceptual tools that will prove useful for anthropologists who find 'data' in their data"-- |
| Item Description: | Originally published as volume 27, Supplement special Issue 2021 of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. |
| Carrier Form: | 179 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781119816768 1119816769 |
| Index Number: | GN42 |
| CLC: | Q98-37 |
| Call Number: | Q98-37/T737 |
| Contents: | Introduction : towards an anthropology of data / Rachel Douglas-Jones, Antonia Walford & Nick Seaver -- Becoming data : biometric IDs and the individual in 'Digital India' / Vijayanka Nair -- Everything lies to a space : cultural data and spatial reality / Nick Seaver -- The datafication of nature : data formations and new scales in natural history / Tahani Nadim -- Future-proof : bunkered data centres and the selling of ultra-secure cloud storage / A.R.E. Taylor -- From connection to contagion / Cori Hayden -- Hacking anthropology / Hannah Knox -- Data - ova- gene - data / Antonia Walford -- Strategic translation : pollution, data, and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge / Sarah Blacker -- Bodies of data : doubles, composites, and aggregates / Rachel Douglas-Jones -- Data forward : an afterword / Bill Maurer. |