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Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico Maria Elena Martinez
Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico
Maria Elena Martinez
Genealogical Fictions examines how the state, church, Inquisition, and other institutions in colonial Mexico used the Spanish notion of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) over time and how the concept's enduring religious, genealogical, and gendered meanings came to shape the region's patriotic and racial ideologies.
400 pages, 13 illustrations, 2 maps
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 17, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780804756488 |
| Publishers | Stanford University Press |
| Pages | 424 |
| Dimensions | 237 × 158 × 30 mm · 703 g |