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  • At another level the word casta is sometimes used to indicate a particular genetic pathway leading from the foundational breeds to the modern ones.

    The foundational bull ranches 1997

  • At another level the word casta is sometimes used to indicate a particular genetic pathway leading from the foundational breeds to the modern ones.

    The foundational bull ranches 1997

  • The Smithsonian presentation at the Anacostia Community Museum includes reproductions of two rare 18th-century colonial "casta" paintings not seen on display since the exhibition originally opened in 2006.

    unknown title 2009

  • Inviolata, integra et casta es, Maria – Gregorian Chant

    The Holy Rosary with the Schola of the Oxford Oratory and Meditations by J.H. Newman 2009

  • Alida Cervantes: Los Mas Barbaros | Los Mas Barbaros The Most Barbaric features recent paintings and a video inspired by Colonial Mexican casta paintings which depict a variety of racially diverse couples and their offspring in different settings, often arranged denoting their social class.

    Bill Bush: Drawing on Experience: This Artweek.LA (May 23-29) Bill Bush 2011

  • Alida Cervantes: Los Mas Barbaros | Los Mas Barbaros The Most Barbaric features recent paintings and a video inspired by Colonial Mexican casta paintings which depict a variety of racially diverse couples and their offspring in different settings, often arranged denoting their social class.

    Bill Bush: Drawing on Experience: This Artweek.LA (May 23-29) Bill Bush 2011

  • Alida Cervantes: Los Mas Barbaros | Los Mas Barbaros The Most Barbaric features recent paintings and a video inspired by Colonial Mexican casta paintings which depict a variety of racially diverse couples and their offspring in different settings, often arranged denoting their social class.

    Bill Bush: Drawing on Experience: This Artweek.LA (May 23-29) Bill Bush 2011

  • Alida Cervantes: Los Mas Barbaros | Los Mas Barbaros The Most Barbaric features recent paintings and a video inspired by Colonial Mexican casta paintings which depict a variety of racially diverse couples and their offspring in different settings, often arranged denoting their social class.

    Bill Bush: Drawing on Experience: This Artweek.LA (May 23-29) Bill Bush 2011

  • But the colonial curanderos, at least those that operated within the gaze of the Church, practiced a medicine that has sometimes been described by modern researchers as medicina mestiza — medicine of the casta groups that had their origins in the conquest and whose numbers began to swell in the eighteenth century.

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • The word caste is derived from the spanish word casta which means breed, race, strain or hereditary complex of hereditary qualities.

    What is sociological concept of caste system in India India 2009

  • In the museum’s Spanish Colonial gallery, there are a series of “casta” paintings, which portray the detailed racial classifications in colonial Latin America.

    Museums Have a Docent Problem Sophie Haigney 2020

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