Le Métis imaginaire : idéaux classificatoires et stratégies socio-raciales en Amérique latine (xvie-xxe siècle)
Le Métis imaginaire : idéaux classificatoires et stratégies socio-raciales en Amérique latine (xvie-xxe siècle)
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Le Métis imaginaire : idéaux classificatoires et stratégies Social-raciales en Amérique latine (xvie-xxe siècle)
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1992
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M. Minchom
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C. Caillavet;M. Minchom
Chantal Cailla vet and Martin Minchom, The Imaginary Mestizo : Classificatory Ideals and Socio-racial Strategies in Latin America (16th-20th c). — The socio-racial categories (Indian, Mestizo, White) used in the documentary sources and scientific literature of Latin America from the 16th century to the present day, are highly ambiguous. This article sets out to analyse the variations (semantic and substantive) in these protean categories. The theoretical framework which served as a model for Colonial society in Latin America was a transposition of rigid concepts from metropolitan Spain where the obsession with « purity of blood » and the essential criterion of the necessary separation of the races precluded the integration of the concept of race mixture. The contradictions inherent in this denial of the Colonial reality can be observed in the official classification of the censuses, the parish registers and the Inquisition records. A less familiar type of source, the « Declaration of Mestizo » sheds light on the experience of the individuals concerned, and reveals the adaptive strategies developed to « play the system » and overcome the constraints of caste society. (Trad. M.M.)