Towards an Anthropology of Data
Title | Towards an Anthropology of Data PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Douglas-Jones |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 180 |
Release | 2021-05-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781119816768 |
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
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Title | The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 454 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Anthropology |
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Title | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 664 |
Release | 1872 |
Genre | Anthropology |
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Mind and Spirit
Title | Mind and Spirit PDF eBook |
Author | Tanya Marie Luhrmann |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020-06-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781119712886 |
Does the way we think about our minds matter? Our judgements about what counts as thought are so intimate that we may not even realize that we make them. But we do – and the way we make them has consequences for our sense of the real. The Mind and Spirit project (presented in this volume) finds that the way people think about thinking, shapes the way they experience (what they take to be) gods and spirits Authors are a team of anthropologists and psychologists who worked together for two years across sites in the United States, Ghana, Thailand, China, and Vanuatu Argues that there are cultural differences in the way social worlds represent ‘the mind’ – we call these local theories of mind – and that these differences affect whether and how people, for instance, hear the voices of the dead or feel the presence of God Discusses how the ways people think about thought and interiority can alter human sensory experience itself
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Title | The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 600 |
Release | 1897 |
Genre | |
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Energy and Ethics?
Title | Energy and Ethics? PDF eBook |
Author | Mette M. High |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-05-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781119596998 |
This volume presents a much-needed rethinking and proposes a more nuanced, inclusive, and capacious approach to energy ethics that will help us grapple with some of the most pressing issues of our time. The contributors demonstrate how ethics emerge through people’s everyday thoughts and practices, whether they work in renewables, nuclear, or fossil fuels; whether they work in industry, policy, or advocacy; whether they produce, distribute, or consume energy It shows how to create an analytical space in which we can attend to people’s own experiences and evaluations without uncritically imposing judgements of how we would like the world to be By attending to the broader political and economic contexts in which these everyday energy encounters take place, this volume draws attention to the plurality and complexity that characterises the multiple and overlapping ‘ethical worlds’ in which we, our interlocutors, and other beings participate
Back to the Postindustrial Future
Title | Back to the Postindustrial Future PDF eBook |
Author | Felix Ringel |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 238 |
Release | 2018-03-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1785337998 |
How does an urban community come to terms with the loss of its future? The former socialist model city of Hoyerswerda is an extreme case of a declining postindustrial city. Built to serve the GDR coal industry, it lost over half its population to outmigration after German reunification and the coal industry crisis, leading to the large-scale deconstruction of its cityscape. This book tells the story of its inhabitants, now forced to reconsider their futures. Building on recent theoretical work, it advances a new anthropological approach to time, allowing us to investigate the postindustrial era and the futures it has supposedly lost.