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March 2007
6 x 9, 349 pp., 22 illus.
$32.95/£24.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
1-890951-72-2
ISBN-13:
978-1-890951-72-6

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From Zone Books:
Who Are You?
Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe
Valentin Groebner
Translated by Mark Kyburz and John Peck


Preface7
PART ONE
NATURES
IAre We Who We Appear to Be?
Narratives of Identication
17
IIImages and Signs31
IIIRegistering Names
Offices of Record
65
IVMarks on Skin95
VNature's Way
The Color of Things
117
PART TWO
OBJECTS
VILetters and Their Bearers151
VIICertificates and Appearances
Doubling the Person
171
VIIIMajor Apparatuses223
Notes261
Index329
 
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