Proceedings of a workshop held September 7-10, 2010, in St John's Co llege, Cambridge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Editors' introduction: Recognition and registration : the infrastruc ture of personhood in world history / Simon Szreter and Keith Breckenri dge -- Household registration, property rights, and social obligations in Imperial China : principles and practices / Richard von Glahn -- Reg istration of identities in early modern English parishes and amongst th e English overseas / Simon Szreter -- Too much information? Too little coordination? : (civil) registation in nineteenth-century Germany / And reas Fahrmeir -- Japan's civil registration systems before and after th e Meiji restoration / Osamu Saito and Masahiro Sato -- Civil status and identification in nineteenth-century France : a matter of state contro l? / Paul-Andrâe Rosental -- Identity registration in the classical Med iterranean world / Rebecca Flemming -- Naming, identifying and authoriz ing movement in early modern Spain and Spanish America / Tamar Herzog - - Establishing and registering identity in the Dutch Republic / Henk Lo oijesteijn and Marco H.D. van Leeuwen -- The identity thieves of the In dian Ocean : forgery, fraud and the origins of South African immigratio n control, 1890s-1920s / Andrew MacDonald -- Parish baptism registers, vital registration and fixing identities in Uganda / Shane Doyle -- Ide ntity registration in India during and after the Raj / Ravindran Gopina th -- Monitoring the abolition of the international slave trade : slave registration in the British Caribbean / Stanley L. Engerman -- Birth o f the "secular" individual : medical and legal methods of identificatio n in nineteenth-century Egypt / Khaled Fahmy -- No will to know : the r ise and fall of African civil registration in twentieth-century South A frica / Keith Breckenridge -- Voting, welfare and registration : the st range fate of the âEtat-Civil in French Africa, 1945-1960 / Frederick C ooper -- Uruguay's child rights approach to health : what role for civi l registration? / Anne-Emanuelle Birn -- Birth registration and the pro motion of children's rights in the interwar years : the Save the Childr en International Union's Conference on the African Child, and Herbert H oover's American Child Health Association / Dominique Marshall -- Child ren, citizenship and child support : the Child Support Grant in post-ap artheid South Africa / Francie Lund -- What comes after the social? His toricizing the future of social assistance and identity registration in Africa / James Ferguson.