Overview
Wide-ranging collection discussing the impact of digital technology and digital data collection on anthropological practice
Discusses data such as texts, audio, photography, and film/video from perspectives ranging from the technical to the ethical
Sets forth thoughts on the future directions of digital scholarship, particularly in the social sciences
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
For more than two decades, anthropologists have wrestled with new digital technologies and their impacts on how their data are collected, managed, and ultimately presented. Anthropological Data in the Digital Age compiles a range of academics in anthropology and the information sciences, archivists, and librarians to offer in-depth discussions of the issues raised by digital scholarship. The volume covers the technical aspects of data management—retrieval, metadata, dissemination, presentation, and preservation—while at once engaging with case studies written by cultural anthropologists and archaeologists returning from the field to grapple with the implications of producing data digitally. Concluding with thoughts on the new considerations and ethics of digital data, Anthropological Data in the Digital Age is a multi-faceted meditation on anthropological practice in a technologically mediated world.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jerome W. Crowder is Associate Professor of Preventative Medicine and Community Health and Associate Director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA.
Mike Fortun is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, USA.
Rachel Besara is Associate Dean of Libraries at Missouri State University, USA.
Lindsay Poirier is Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the University of California, Davis, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Anthropological Data in the Digital Age
Book Subtitle: New Possibilities – New Challenges
Editors: Jerome W. Crowder, Mike Fortun, Rachel Besara, Lindsay Poirier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24925-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24924-3Published: 13 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24927-4Published: 13 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24925-0Published: 01 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 270
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Anthropology, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Research Methodology, Media Sociology