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This paper analyzes ethnographic and cartographic evidence from Sierra Leone that show the limitations of big data relative to the containment of Ebola. In this paper, big data is both a technology itself and also a foundation and catalyst for other technologies. Early in 2014, big data's technologies of data collection as well as its algorithmic functions were heralded by US media for detecting the West African Ebola outbreak. Later in the epidemic, big data - specifically, data from millions of cell phones - was further hyped as able to help stop the infectious and often fatal disease by tracking the mobility and migrations of contagious people. Big data's failures in this case are directly linked to what big data epidemiologists did not understand about the social life and thing-self issues of cell phones in Sierra Leone. In addition to identifying ethical concerns about human contagion tracking, the paper shows that cell phones did not serve well as beacons of contagion because they do not operate as inalienable indicators of individual property and identity in Sierra Leone.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- introduction Toward Global Anthropological Studies of Reproduction: Concepts, Methods, Theoretical Approaches -- Introduction to Part I -- 1. Global Ethnography: Problems of Theory and Method -- 2. Globalizing, Reproducing, and Civilizing Rural Subjects: Population Control Policy and Constructions of Rural Identity in China -- 3. Planning Men Out of Family Planning: A Case Study from Mexico -- 4. Antiviral but Pronatal? arvs and Reproductive Health: The View from a South African Township -- 5. Birth in the Age of aids: Local Responses to Global Policies and Technologies in South India -- 6. Competing Globalizing Influences on Local Muslim Women's Reproductive Health and Human Rights in Sudan: Women's Rights, International Feminism, and Islamism -- Introduction to Part II -- 7. Reproductive Viability and the State: Embryonic Stem Cell Research in India -- 8. Globalization and Gametes: Islam, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, and the Middle Eastern State -- 9. Law, Technology, and Gender Relations: Following the Path of DNA Paternity Tests in Brazil -- Introduction to Part III -- 10. From Sex Workers to Tourism Workers: A Structural Approach to Male Sexual Labor in Dominican Tourism Areas -- 11. Family Reunification Ideals and the Practice of Transnational Reproductive Life among Africans in Europe -- 12. Problematizing Polygamy, Managing Maternity: The Intersections of Global, State, and Family Politics in the Lives of West African Migrant Women in France -- 13. Lost in Translation: Lessons from California on the Implementation of State-Mandated Fetal Diagnosis in the Context of Globalization -- 14. Reproductive Rights in No-Woman's-Land: Politics and Humanitarian Assistance -- Epilogue The Mystery Child and the Politics of Reproduction: Between National Imaginaries and Transnational Confrontations -- References -- Contributors -- Index