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Towards an Anthropology of Data

Towards an Anthropology of Data
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : 1119816769
ISBN-13 : 9781119816768
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Book Synopsis Towards an Anthropology of Data by : Rachel Douglas-Jones

Download or read book Towards an Anthropology of Data written by Rachel Douglas-Jones and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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


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