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Documenting Individual Identity The Development of State Practices in the Modern World

Paperback • 2001 • English • 1. edition

Documenting Individual Identity The Development of State Practices in the Modern World

By Jane Caplan, John Torpey

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About the book

This book addresses one of the least studied yet most pervasive aspects of modern life--the techniques and mechanisms by which official agencies certify individual identity. From passports and identity cards to labor registration and alien documentation, from fingerprinting to much-debated contemporary issues such as DNA-typing, body surveillance, and the catastrophic results of colonial-era identity documentation in postcolonial Rwanda, Documenting Individual Identity offers the most comprehens...Show more

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9780691009124

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2001

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Documenting Individual Identity The Development of State Practices in the Modern World

Format

Paperback

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