MICRO: What did the analyst choose to describe as “science” and/or “data” in Africa?

Querying Science and Technology Studies in Africa

August 3, 2018

In response to:

Biruk, Crystal. 2018. Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World. Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography. Durham: Duke University Press.

Biruk hones in on quantitative demographic health data in Malawi as the "science" she chooses to study. Throughout the book she draws on her experience as an anthropologist and compares the epistemic cultures of demographers and anthropologists.

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MICRO: What did the analyst choose to describe as “science” and/or “data” in Africa?

Biruk, Crystal. 2018. Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World. Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography. Durham: Duke University Press.