9780804776615-080477661X-Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico

Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico

ISBN-13: 9780804776615
ISBN-10: 080477661X
Edition: 1
Author: María Elena Martínez
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Format: Paperback 424 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780804776615
ISBN-10: 080477661X
Edition: 1
Author: María Elena Martínez
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Format: Paperback 424 pages

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Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico (ISBN-13: 9780804776615 and ISBN-10: 080477661X), written by authors María Elena Martínez, was published by Stanford University Press in 2008. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Mexico (Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Mexico books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.83.

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María Elena Martínez's Genealogical Fictions is the first in-depth study of the relationship between the Spanish concept of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) and colonial Mexico's sistema de castas, a hierarchical system of social classification based primarily on ancestry. Specifically, it explains how this notion surfaced amid socio-religious tensions in early modern Spain, and was initially used against Jewish and Muslim converts to Christianity. It was then transplanted to the Americas, adapted to colonial conditions, and employed to create and reproduce identity categories according to descent. Martínez also examines how the state, church, Inquisition, and other institutions in colonial Mexico used the notion of purity of blood over time, arguing that the concept's enduring religious, genealogical, and gendered meanings and the archival practices it promoted came to shape the region's patriotic and racial ideologies.

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