{"product_id":"genealogical-fictions-9780804776615","title":"Genealogical Fictions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGenealogical Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e examines how the state, church, Inquisition, and other institutions in colonial Mexico used the Spanish notion of \u003ci\u003elimpieza de sangre\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This important and meticulously researched work takes on the historiography that argues that the modern Western conception of race had its origins in nineteenth-century scientific constructions of race as a biological category . . . This is an engaging and important work that is sure to attract the attention of historians and scholars from other fields working on issues of race, religion, gender, and colonial empires in Latin America, Europe, and the Atlantic World.\" -- Martha Few * \u003ci\u003eEstudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Through a persuasive analysis of a vast array of archival and published sources, [Martinez] adds depth and complexity to our understanding of religious, cultural, and social framework and of the tensions and contradictions the fiction of limpieza de sangre created in its Mexican settings . . . Martinez's tour de force gives a new meaning to an important subject not seriously addressed previously and should be of great interest to scholars and students.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Americas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book provides detailed information about how ideas and information circulated across the Atlantic. Throughout the text, Martinez uses primary documents judiciously and well; particularly fascinating are the descriptions of the processing of probanzas in both local and transatlantic contexts.\" * Magali Carrera \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGenealogical Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e is the first serious treatment in English of the origins of the \u003ci\u003esistema de castas\u003c\/i\u003e and racial ideology in colonial Mexico. It problematizes unquestioned assumptions about \u003ci\u003elimpieza de sangre\u003c\/i\u003e—purity of blood—the foundation of the \u003ci\u003esistema de castas\u003c\/i\u003e, through a reconstruction of the concept's transformations from its origins in early modern Spain to its adaptations in colonial Mexico. Martinez also has much to say about the development of Mexican society in the seventeenth century, a largely neglected period that is only now beginning to attract the attention of contemporary historians. This is an important and original work and a first-rate addition to the existing literature.\" -- Susan Deans-Smith * University of Texas at Austin *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS  INTRODUCTION \t000  Problem and Objectives  Limpieza de Sangre, Race, and Colonialism in the Early Modern Period  Archives, Sources, and Chapter Description  PART ONE: IBERIAN PRECEDENTS  CHAPTER 1  THE EMERGENCE OF THE SPANISH STATUTES OF LIMPIEZA DE SANGRE   \t000  Mass Conversions, Anti-Semitism, and the Rise of the Statutes in Late Medieval   Spain, 000  Political Centralization, Christian Militancy, and the Founding of the Inquisition,   000  The Problem of Conversion During and After the Reign of the Catholic Kings, 000  CHAPTER 2  RACE, PURITY, AND GENDER IN SIXTEENTH--CENTURY SPAIN\t000  The Spread of the Limpieza de Sangre Statutes, 000  Heresy, Blood, and the Essentialization of \"Race\", 000  The Inquisition's Production of Heresy and the Feminization of Impurity, 000  CHAPTER 3 \t  JURIDICAL FICTIONS: THE CERTIFICATION OF PURITY AND   CONSTRUCTION OF COMMUNAL MEMORY \t000  The Holy Office's Procedures and the Probanza de Limpieza de Sangre, 000  The Probatory and Unstable Nature of Purity of Blood, 000  Teleological Fictions, 000  PART TWO: RELIGION, GENEALOGY, AND CASTE IN EARLY COLONIAL   MEXICO  CHAPTER 4  NOBILITY AND PURITY IN THE REPUBLICA DE INDIOS\t000  The Rise of the Mexica in the Late Postclassic and the Colonial \"Republic of   Indians\", 000  Spanish Colonialism and the Reconstitution of Pre-Hispanic Dynasties, 000  History, Genealogy, and the New Symbolics of Blood, 000  CHAPTER 5  NOBILITY AND PURITY IN THE REPUBLICA DE ESPA; OLES\t000  Descent and Territoriality: The Probanza de Meritos y Servicios, 000  Bloodlines and Religion: The Probanza de Limpieza de Sangre, 000  Creoles and the Struggle for Religious and Public Offices, 000  CHAPTER 6  THE INITIAL STAGES AND SOCIORELIGIOUS ROOTS OF THE SISTEMA DE   CASTAS\t000  Categories and Archives: Books of Spaniards, Indians and Castas, 000  Caste, Slavery, and Colonial Mexico's Gendered Symbolics of Blood, 000  Raza, Casta, and Limpieza de Sangre: The Spanish Colonial Language of Race, 000  PART THREE: PURITY, RACE, AND CREOLISM IN SEVENTEENTH- AND   EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NEW SPAIN  CHAPTER 7  THE PROBANZA DE LIMPIEZA DE SANGRE IN COLONIAL AND   TRANSATLANTIC SPACE \t000  The Mexican Inquisition and the Transatlantic Certification of Purity, 000  Nativeness, Communal Memory, and the Instability of Limpieza de Sangre, 000  Creole Nativeness, Purity, and History in the \"Kingdom of New Spain\", 000  CHAPTER 8  RELIGION, LAW, AND RACE: THE QUESTION OF PURITY IN   SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MEXICO\t000  The Official Line: The Inquisition and the Crown on the Issue of Limpieza de   Sangre, 000  Idolatry, Heresy, and the Ambiguities of the Colonial Discourse of Native Purity,   000  Blacks, Castas, and the Expansion of the Category of Impurity, 000  CHAPTER 9  CHANGING CONTOURS: LIMPIEZA DE SANGRE IN THE AGE OF REASON   AND REFORM\t000  An Iconography of Mestizaje: Casta Paintings and the Intersection of Race, Class,   and Gender, 000  The Sistema de Castas in Flux and the Proliferation of Statutes and Stains, 000  Creole Fictions: Purity, the Virgin, and the Rise of a Catholic Mestizo Patria, 000  CONCLUSION \t000  Appendix. Questionnaire used by the Spanish Inquisition to interrogate witnesses in   purity of blood investigations (in Spanish) \t000  Abbreviations \t000  Glossary\t000  Bibliography\t000  Index \t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405596467543,"sku":"9780804776615","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804776615.jpg?v=1730492954","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/genealogical-fictions-9780804776615","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}