The paradox of IDs: an account of an ethnographic experience in the US
In the modern world, IDs are indispensable objects, without which we cannot prove that we are who we say we are. We need material substantiation that attests to the authenticity of our self-identification. This paper is an account of an ethnographic experience about IDs and identification processes...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
2008-01-01
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| Series: | Horizontes Antropológicos |
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| Online Access: | http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-71832008000100009&lng=en&tlng=en |