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

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.

• | Author: Maria Elena Martinez
• | Publisher: Stanford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 27, 2011
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780804776615
• | ISBN-10: 080477661X