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

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University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]
Physical Description:
253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators:
Ferguson, Rex, 1977-, Littlefield, Melissa M., 1979-, and Purdon, James, 1983-
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Contents:
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.
Summary:
"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"--
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ISBN:
9780271090573 (hardback)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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