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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818681803321

Titolo

The art of identification : forensics, surveillance, identity / / edited by Rex Ferguson, Melissa M. Littlefield, and James Purdon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-271-09137-1

0-271-09136-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 pages)

Collana

AnthropoScene : the SLSA book series ; ; volume 9

Disciplina

111/.82

Soggetti

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature - History

Identity (Philosophical concept) - History

Identification - History

Identification - Social aspects - History

Essays.

History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Charming faces and the problem of identification / Matt Houlbrook -- Identity noir / James Purdon -- "The ghosts of individual pecularities" : murder and interpretation in Dickens / Andrew Mangham -- "A puzzle of character" : Francis Iles and narrative of criminality in the 1930s / Victoria Stewart -- The art of identification : the skeleton and human identity / Rebecca Gowland and Tim Thompson -- Becoming more biological : Ruth Ozeki and the postgenomic ethnoracial novel / Patricia E. Chu -- Identification made visible : photographic evidence and Russell Williams / Jonathan Finn -- The face in the biometric passport / Liv Hausken -- The Bourne identification / Rex Ferguson -- Identification and the "intelligent city" / Dorothy Butchard -- Jennifer Egan and the database / Rob Lederer.

Sommario/riassunto

"A multidisciplinary collection of essays exploring current scholarship on the history of human identification. Examines how techniques of



identification are entangled within a wider sphere of cultural identity formation"--