The Pleasures of Taxonomy: Casta Paintings, Classification, and Colonialism

A new model for thinking about the socioracial categories depicted in casta paintings (remarkable eighteenth-century Spanish American images representing the outcome of "racial mixing") takes seriously both their fluidity and their genealogical character. Approaching classification, and ca...

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Veröffentlicht in:The WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY. - The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1892. - 73(2016), 3, Seite 427-466
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Veröffentlicht: 2016
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:The WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY
Schlagworte:Behavioral sciences Social sciences History Business Arts