Genealogical fictions : limpieza de sangre, religion, and gender in colonial Mexico /
María Elena Martínez.
- xiv, 407 páginas : ilustraciones
Incluye bibliografía.
The emergence of the Spanish statutes of limpieza de sangre -- Race, purity, and gender in sixteenth-century Spain -- Juridical fictions : the certification of purity and construction of communal memory -- Nobility and purity in the República de Indios -- Nobility and purity in the República de Espanoles -- The initial stages and socioreligious roots of the sistema de castas -- The probanza de limpieza de sangre in colonial and transatlantic space -- Religion, law, and race : the question of purity in seventeenth-century Mexico -- Changing contours : limpieza de sangre in the age of reason and reform.