TY - BOOK AU - Biruk, Crystal AB - 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-based research projects call truths about the populations they work with into being, transforming data from answers to survey questions into statistics that appear self-evidently true. Beginning with the assumption that clean data is a myth, Biruk uncovers the hidden relationships between the knowledge work that produces data and its value to various audiences. Specifically, her work considers how health-related data have become financially valuable both to NGOs and to the young Malawians who work as data collectors and, later, supervisors--and how the commodification of health information intersects with local social worlds. ID - OAPEN ID: 648164 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1015246329 KW - Anthropology KW - Data collection KW - Demography KW - Electroconvulsive therapy KW - European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System KW - Field research KW - Malawi L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/8d126e07-d930-47a6-9b6e-2d88cc2dbec2/648164.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30253 PB - Duke University Press PP - Durham, NC PY - 2018-03-30 SN - 9780822371823 TI - Cooking Data : Culture and Politics in an African Research World ER -