HIST 4030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Forces, Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft, Physiognomy
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Guha the politics of identity and enumeration in india c. 1600-1900 . Census important for south asian identity formation. He writes that the real innovation of the census-takers of the 1870s was, therefore, not the construction of ethnic-racial classifications, but rather in their systematic quantification - anderson. Pg 75 last paragraph - people judged for what they are on the outside. Pg 78 names are enough to identify. Higgs early modern england--a face to face society? . Shaping and change over time of identification methods in early england; High mobility - more identification - unstable population people come and go. Migration/urbanization - constantly meeting strangers - need for identification. Informal credit arrangements to formal ones- more trade and transactions - gradual change. Shape people"s legal identity - more debts. Gemeinschaft - relationship between community and members. Five year old diego de leon gets branded on face with s on cheeks. Free indian - should not have been branded.
