Inventing Mastery
Patriarchal Precedents and the Legal Status of Indigenous People in Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4898409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pavla Miller (0000-0001-7539-7450, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 264-288 |
| Publication date | 2000-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-6443.00118 |
| OpenAlex | W1982438790 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The paper discusses some aspects of Aboriginal legal status in Australia from the perspective of survival, transformation and reinvention of early modern legal codifications of household mastery. Traces of masters' and husbands' entitlement to the labour of servants, children and wives, as well as their magistracy over household dependents, not only survive in today's laws and social relations; at times, they have been reinvented in a process which reversed the presumed movement from contract to status. The original dispossession of Australia's Indigenous peoples by British settlers set the stage for a particularly destructive instance of such process. Its legacy continues to shape contemporary struggles for Aboriginal rights
Economics · Entitlement (fair division · Indigenous · Legal process · Legal status · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |