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  title info:
    title: Biometric state
    sub title: the global politics of identification and surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the present
  name:
    name part: Breckenridge, Keith
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  table of contents: Introduction: the global biometric arena -- Science of empire: the South African origins and objects of Galtonian eugenics -- Asiatic despotism: Edward Henry on the Witwatersrand -- Gandhi's biometric entanglement: fingerprints, Satyagraha and the global politics of Hind Swaraj -- No will to know: biometric registration and the limited curiosity of the gatekeeper state -- Verwoerd's bureau of proof: the apartheid bewysburo and the end of documentary government -- Galtonian reversal: apartheid and the making of biometric citizenship -- Epilogue: empire and the mimetic fantasy.
  note: Keith Breckenridge, University of the Witwatersrand.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-sa---
  subject:
    topic: Citizenship
    geographic: South Africa
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Biometric identification
    topic: Government policy
    geographic: South Africa
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Biometric identification
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: South Africa
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: South Africa
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: South Africa
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: JQ1983 .B74 2014
  classification: 323.44830968
  identifier: 9781107077843 (hardback : alk. paper)
  identifier: 1107077842 (hardback : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9781107434899 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 1107434890 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2014022526
  record info:
    record content source: IEN/DLC
    record creation date: 140609
    record change date: 20141016113422.0
    record identifier: in00003521198
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng