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Documenting Individual Identity : The Development of State Practices in the Modern World by Jane Caplan; John Torpey; Princeton University is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>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, <i>Documenting Individual Identity</i> offers the most
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- Author
- Jane Caplan; John Torpey; Princeton University
- Publisher
- Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691009124
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Law
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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