Imagining identity in New Spain : race, lineage, and the colonial body in portraiture and casta paintings /
Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon government of Spain attempted to categorize and control its colonial subjects through increasing social regulation of their bodies and the spaces they inhabited...
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| Formaat: | Licensed eBooks |
| Taal: | Engels |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2003.
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| Editie: | 1st ed. |
| Reeks: | Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
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| Online toegang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/712454 |
Inhoudsopgave:
- Identity by appearance, judgment, and circumstances: race as lineage and calidad
- The faces and bodies of eighteenth-century metropolitan Mexico: an overview of social context
- Envisioning the colonial body
- Regulating and narrating the colonial body
- From populacho to citizen: the re-vision of the colonial body.