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Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteenth-century portraiture and casta paintings to understand how the people and spaces of New Spain were conceptu

Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Visual Practices in Late-Colonial Mexico
  • Chapter One: Identity by Appearance, Judgment, and Circumstances: Race as Lineage and Calidad
  • Chapter Two: The Faces and Bodies of Eighteenth-Century Metropolitan Mexico: An Overview of Social Context
  • Chapter Three: Envisioning the Colonial Body
  • Chapter Four: Regulating and Narrating the Colonial Body
  • Chapter Five: From Popolacho to Citizen: The Re-vision of the Colonial Body
  • Epilogue: Dreams of Order
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Imagining Identity in New Spain

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/04/2003
      ISBN13: 9780292744172, 978-0292744172
      ISBN10: 029274417X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteenth-century portraiture and casta paintings to understand how the people and spaces of New Spain were conceptu

      Table of Contents
      • List of Illustrations
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction: Visual Practices in Late-Colonial Mexico
      • Chapter One: Identity by Appearance, Judgment, and Circumstances: Race as Lineage and Calidad
      • Chapter Two: The Faces and Bodies of Eighteenth-Century Metropolitan Mexico: An Overview of Social Context
      • Chapter Three: Envisioning the Colonial Body
      • Chapter Four: Regulating and Narrating the Colonial Body
      • Chapter Five: From Popolacho to Citizen: The Re-vision of the Colonial Body
      • Epilogue: Dreams of Order
      • Notes
      • Glossary
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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