This book offers a new conceptual framework for understanding metadata across different historical periods and global contexts. Moving beyond data as simple information, the authors explore how metadata reshapes human lives, scientific practices, and worldwide concerns about justice.

Integrating anthropology, infrastructure studies, and science and technology studies, the book introduces a critical terminology for understanding metadata not only as a technical object but as a set of living, changing relationships embedded in stories of racism, colonial dispossession, and digital transformation of health.

Pages: 182

Year of Publication: 1225

Dimensions: 15.6x15.6cm