The Art of Identification
Forensics, Surveillance, Identity
Since the mid-nineteenth century, there has been a notable acceleration in the development of the techniques used to confirm identity. From fingerprints to photographs to DNA, we have been rapidly amassing novel means of identification, even as personal, individual identity remains a complex chimera. The Art of Identification examines how such processes are entangled within a wider sphere of cultural identity formation.Against the backdrop of an unstable modernity and the rapid rise and expansion of identificatory techniques, this volume makes the case that identity and identification are mutually imbricated and that our best understanding of…
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Weitere Autoren: Littlefield, Melissa M. (Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) (Hrsg.) / Purdon, James (Lecturer, University of St Andrews) (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-271-09057-3
- EAN: 9780271090573
- Produktnummer: 35873583
- Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 262 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.8 cm x D2.3 cm 548 g
- Abbildungen: 3 Halftones, black and white
- Gewicht: 548
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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