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Identification and registration practices in transnational perspective people, papers and practices / edited by Ilsen About, James Brown and Gayle Lonergan ; afterword by Jane Caplan and Edward Higgs.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- St. Antony's series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- St Antony's series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Recording and registration--Social aspects--Case studies.
- Recording and registration.
- Recording and registration--Technological innovations--Case studies.
- Identification--Social aspects--Case studies.
- Identification.
- Identification--Technological innovations--Case studies.
- Technological innovations.
- Social aspects.
- Recording and registration--Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford, 2013.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction; Ilsen About, James R. Brown and Gayle Lonergan
- PART I: THE CENTRAL STATE: SYSTEMS, STANDARDS, AND TECHNIQUES
- 1. Individual Identity and Identification in 18th Century France; Vincent Denis
- 2. Registration as Privilege: The Moscow Residence Permit as a Mark of Privilege in the Russian Empire, 1881-1905; Gayle Lonergan
- 3. Dissemination of the Argentine Dactyloscopy System in the Early Twentieth Century: Local, Regional and International Dimensions; Mercedes Garc̕a Ferrari
- 4. The Philosopher and the Printer: Practices of Criminal Identification in Fascist Italy; Massimiliano Pagani
- 5. De-Neutralizing Identification: S. & Marper v. United Kingdom, Biometric Databases, Uniqueness, Privacy, and Human Rights; Simon A. Cole
- 6. The Biometric Fetish; Emilio Mordini and Andrew P. Rebera
- PART II: BEYOND THE CENTRAL STATE: COMMUNITY, COMMERCE, AND ECONOMICS
- 7. The Parish Registers in Early Modern English History: Registration from Above and Below; Simon Szreter
- 8. An Unusually Open Identification Number System: The Icelandic Kennitala; Ian Watson
- 9. From Custom to Civil Status Registration: The Anthropology of Kinship and the Rule of Law; Claudine Dardy
- 10. Consuming Identity and Consuming the State in Britain since c. 1750; Edward Higgs
- PART III: THE IDENTIFIED: PERCEPTION, RESISTANCE, AND NEGOTIATION
- 11. Cat and Mouse Games: The State, Indians in the Cape and the Permit System, 1900s-1920s; Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
- 12. A Paper Trap. Exiles versus the Identification Police in France during the Interwar Period; Ilsen About
- 13. 'Ausweis Bitte!' Identity and Identification in Nazi Germany; Jane Caplan
- 14. What Do You Think The Household Register Is? Perceptions of Koseki Relating to Social Order and Individual Rights in 1950s and 2000s Japan; Karl Jakob Krogness
- 15. Denouncing and Resisting. Identity Assignment Policies in France, 1970-2010; Pierre Piazza
- 16. 'Establishing Your True Identity:' Immigration Detention and Contemporary Identification Debates; Melanie Griffiths
- Afterword
- The Future of Identification's Past: Reflections on the Development of Historical Identification Studies; Jane Caplan and Edward Higgs.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Oct. 14, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9781137367310
- 1137367318
- Publisher Number:
- 99987485912
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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