{"product_id":"genealogical-fictions-mara-elena-martnez-9780804756488","title":"Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico","description":"\u003cp\u003eMar? Elena Mart?ez's \u003ci\u003eGenealogical Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e is the first in-depth study of the relationship between the Spanish concept of \u003ci\u003elimpieza de sangre\u003c\/i\u003e (purity of blood) and colonial Mexico's \u003ci\u003esistema de castas\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. Mart?ez 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mar? Elena Mart?ez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804756481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804756488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/17\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/12\/2008 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2008 pg. 72","brand":"Mar? Elena Mart?ez","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44120258248959,"sku":"9780804756488","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b7f8483a-e6cb-466c-8c8a-19816d2142e6.jpg?v=1687413345","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/genealogical-fictions-mara-elena-martnez-9780804756488","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}