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

Martinez, Maria-elena

Brossura

ISBN 10: 080477661X ISBN 13: 9780804776615

Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 2011

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

María Elena Martínez is Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.

Product Description:

Book by Martinez Maria Elena

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 080477661X
• ISBN 13: 9780804776615
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 407