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“…That juxtaposition of Mary Kingsley's drawing and George Schwab's photograph quickened my mind and provoked a line of search: from the literal how? of the tying up, to the how of the "marginal gains" (Guyer 2004) that are made in transactions, and then to how "number (is an) inventive frontier" in the cultural life of the present (Guyer, Khan, and Obarrio 2010).…”
Section: Political Economy and Materialist Historymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…That juxtaposition of Mary Kingsley's drawing and George Schwab's photograph quickened my mind and provoked a line of search: from the literal how? of the tying up, to the how of the "marginal gains" (Guyer 2004) that are made in transactions, and then to how "number (is an) inventive frontier" in the cultural life of the present (Guyer, Khan, and Obarrio 2010).…”
Section: Political Economy and Materialist Historymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Likewise, recent scholarship on the origins, spread, and transformation of numbers regimes shows that numbers do things (Guyer et al. ; Merry ). People use numbers to mediate and construct social realities.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…More than the domain of modern statecraft and scientific expertise, however, numbers regimes are “both familiar and unfamiliar to each other; partially overlapping and divergent; esoteric and potentially mutually translatable; parochial and interconnected; creative of opacity as well as clarity,” making both context‐specific and comparative ethnographic approaches to numbers‐in‐practice essential (Guyer et al. , 38).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Emphasized here are the tools and avenues through which anthropology provokes a departure from normalcy. Others (Guyer et al 2010;Erikson 2012;Sangaramoorthy 2012) recognize the ways that anthropology can participate in traditional approaches to monitoring and evaluation in order to 'provide various levels of accountability for activities or policies ' (WHO 2004, 4). According to Biruk (2014, 348), institutionally necessary data, while expected to be 'clean, accurate, precise', and a fixed representation of a problem at hand, is 6 Anthropologies of global health are one example among many.…”
Section: Anthropology As Reformmentioning
confidence: 99%