Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective: People, Papers and Practices

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Individual Identity and Identification in Eighteenth-Century France....Pages 17-30
Registration as Privilege: The Moscow Residence Permit as a Mark of Privilege in the Russian Empire, 1881–1905....Pages 31-43
Dissemination of the Argentine Dactyloscopy System in the Early Twentieth Century: Local, Regional and International Dimensions....Pages 44-59
The Philosopher and the Printer: Practices of Criminal Identification in Fascist Italy....Pages 60-76
De-neutralizing Identification: S. & Marper v. United Kingdom, Biometric Databases, Uniqueness, Privacy and Human Rights....Pages 77-97
The Biometric Fetish....Pages 98-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
The Parish Registers in Early Modern English History: Registration from Above and Below....Pages 113-131
An Unusually Open Identification Number System: The Icelandic Kennitala....Pages 132-144
From Custom to Civil Status Registration: The Anthropology of Kinship and the Rule of Law....Pages 145-163
Consuming Identity and Consuming the State in Britain since c.1750....Pages 164-182
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Cat and Mouse Games: The State, Indians in the Cape and the Permit System, 1900s–1920s....Pages 185-202
A Paper Trap. Exiles versus the Identification Police in France during the Interwar Period....Pages 203-223
‘Ausweis Bitte!’ Identity and Identification in Nazi Germany....Pages 224-242
What Do You Think the Household Register Is? Perceptions of Koseki Relating to Social Order and Individual Rights in 1950s and 2000s Japan....Pages 243-265
Denouncing and Resisting. Identity Assignment Policies in France, 1970–2010....Pages 266-280
‘Establishing Your True Identity’: Immigration Detention and Contemporary Identification Debates....Pages 281-301
Afterword: The Future of Identification’s Past: Reflections on the Development of Historical Identification Studies....Pages 302-308
Back Matter....Pages 309-344