Towards an Anthropology of Data

180 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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

• ISBN: 9781119816768
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.05.2021
• Größe: 165 x 239 mm
• Verlag: Wiley
• Herausgegeben von: Rachel Douglas-Jones, Antonia Walford, Nick Seaver