Towards an Anthropology of Data

Notes on contributors 7(Rachel Douglas-Jones, Antonia Walford & Nick Seaver) Introduction: Towards an anthropology of data 91 (Vijayanka Nair) Becoming data: biometric IDs and the individual in 'Digital India' 262 (Nick Seaver) Everything lies in a space: cultural data and spatial reality 433 (Tahani Nadim) The datafication of nature: data formations and new scales in natural history 624 (A.R.E. Taylor) Future-proof: bunkered data centres and the selling of ultra-secure cloud storage 765 (Cori Hayden) From connection to contagion 956 (Hannah Knox) Hacking anthropology 1087 (Antonia Walford) Data - ova - gene - data 1278 (Sarah Blacker) Strategic translation: pollution, data, and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge 1429 (Rachel Douglas-Jones) Bodies of data: doubles, composites, and aggregates 159(Bill Maurer) Data forward: an afterword 171Index 176