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.
Author(s): Jerome Crowder, Mike Fortun, Rachel Besara, Lindsay Poirier
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 286
Tags: Anthropology, Anthropological Data, Digital Age
Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiv
Introduction (Jerome W. Crowder, Richard B. Freeman)....Pages 1-12
Understanding Data Management Planning and Sharing: Perspectives for the Social Scientist (Michele Reilly, Santi Thompson)....Pages 13-30
Building Socio-technical Systems to Support Data Management and Digital Scholarship in the Social Sciences (Plato L. Smith II, Crystal Felima, Fletcher Durant, David Van Kleeck, Hélène Huet, Laurie N. Taylor)....Pages 31-57
Digital Workflow in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Data Ethnography (Smiljana Antonijević)....Pages 59-83
Archaeological Data in the Cloud: Collaboration and Accessibility with the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) (Lynsey A. Bates, Elizabeth A. Bollwerk, Jillian E. Galle, Fraser D. Neiman)....Pages 85-107
Opportunities and Challenges to Data Sharing with American Indian Tribal Nations (Sean Bruna)....Pages 109-128
Digital Transformations: Integrating Ethnographic Video into a Multimodal Platform (Sarah Franzen)....Pages 129-162
Studying and Mobilizing the Impacts of Anthropological Data in Archives (Diana E. Marsh, Ricardo L. Punzalan)....Pages 163-183
The Past Is Prologue: Preserving and Disseminating Archaeological Data Online (Edward Schortman, Ellen E. Bell, Jenna Nolt, Patricia Urban)....Pages 185-207
Metadata, Digital Infrastructure, and the Data Ideologies of Cultural Anthropology (Lindsay Poirier, Kim Fortun, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, Mike Fortun)....Pages 209-237
Interview with Deborah Winslow of the National Science Foundation (Jerome W. Crowder, Mike Fortun, Rachel Besara, Lindsay Poirier)....Pages 239-254
Post-script: Thoughts on Data Lifecycle and the Lifecycle of Anthropological Thought on Data (Lisa Cliggett)....Pages 255-264
Back Matter ....Pages 265-270
