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catalyst-34176	Okune, Angela 	Review of Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in and African Research World, by Crystal Biruk (Duke University Press, 2018)	2020	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1004	32	36	© Angela Okune, 2020 | Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license Book Review | Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World, by Crystal (Cal) Biruk (Duke University Press, 2018) Angela Okune University of California, Irvine aokune@uci.edu An ethnography of survey research in Malawi, Cooking Data traces the social lives of numbers, demonstrating how the making of quantitative global health data requires a sociotechnical knowledge infrastructure to manage the people, places, and things that characterize the messiness of fieldwork. The book’s middle three chapters in particular foreground the expertise and importance of fieldworkers who are key to ensuring that data collection proceeds smoothly and that produced data is deemed objective, clean, and consumable, as determined by survey research standards.	cache/catalyst-34176.pdf	txt/catalyst-34176.txt