Towards an Anthropology of Data Oral Sciences & Technology In this third edition of

In this third edition of How to Talk to Absolutely Anyone: Confident communication for work

Briggs brilliantly outlines how politicians’ racist accounts of reproduction—stories of Black “welfare queens” and Latina “breeding machines"—were the leading wedge in the government and business disinvestment in families

Peeling back the political rhetoric and technical policy jargon

He chats to Winston Churchill while the two men inspect the bombed-out chamber of the House of Commons a few months later

both prior to and in sessions

Towards an Anthropology of Data Oral Sciences & Technology In this third edition ofData is everywhere. While 'big' data may have once seemed limited to business or high tech, ethnographers are now finding data and its attendant values and practices in their field sites around the world. Data has motivated a sweep of dystopian visions, signaling the invasion of privacy, political manipulation, or shadowy data doubles. Yet anthropologists have been cautious in taking data itself as an object of theoretical interest, even as the