Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective

Editors and Contributors 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 García 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 Index