HIST 4030- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 14 pages long!)
Document Summary
People who are on the verge of extinction . These photographs were not well organized and classified so it was hard to find people. Hard to recognize people from photos because people change appearance over time. Legal bodies: race, criminality and colonialism in south asia. Andaman homes - colonized bodies could be observed, photographed. For future identification of dynamic social groups - recognizing the mutability of castes. 155 - convict number, caste, religion, occupation, place of residence, estimation of age, sentence, offence, etc. Bertillonage - a system of organizing all the photographs of people a good way to identify people. Profiloscope: attached to a chair; for getting racial identities from facial features. Race-technologies: technologies whose sole/primary purpose is to determine racial identities. Biometric nationalismfeudal system before a unified nation - how nations develop. Colonial officials reluctant to introduce it because they thought it was still difficult and not. 1893 - beginning utilizing thumbprints; permanent body signs.
