Abstract
Book Review: Cooking Data: Culture & Politics in an African Research World
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Anthropology is a discipline often considered wary of or even antagonistic towards quantitative data
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In the book Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World, C Biruk addresses this in a nuanced way, not by merely showing how quantitative data “gets it wrong,” but rather by rendering visible the knowledge it produces and how this in turn produces our shared world: “Numbers – and the standards by which they are evaluated – misrepresent real worlds but make new ones” (p. 212)
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Anthropology is a discipline often considered wary of or even antagonistic towards quantitative data. Citation for published version: Hendriks, TD 2020, 'Book review: Cooking Data: Culture & Politics in an African Research World', Africa Spectrum.
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