6.2 ModelS of AborigiriaI ’worlds’
Figure 3 shows the following possibilities
(a) ContiguityZconservation (Strelley)
(b) Parallel society/syncretism (Pt. Augusta)
(c) IntegrationZmediated Aboriginality (Adelaide).
6.21 Evolving Structure I - ContiguityZconservation (Strelley)
In this model Aboriginal society sees itself as contiguous
to white society. Aborigines who have been brought into contact
with-white society reject white society and move away from it.
This model takes into account the promotion of a theorizing
about action upon*standard’ white society to take from it only
those components necessary to construct an Aboriginal world.
In this new society non-Aboriginal teachers are employed
to teach ’white’ learning, Aboriginal teachers are employed for
Aboriginal education (in its widest sense). Contact with non-
Aboriginal people ’outside’ is restricted by the people themselves.
The model is one of conservation,in that traditional Law
and traditional customs are restored and observed.
A new Aboriginal society is consciously structured, conserving
in a modified form the traditions of the old.
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6.22 Evolying Structure II - parallel SocietyZsyncretic (Pt. Augusta)
This model takes account of the interaction between tradition-
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dwellers, Aboriginal people integrated into town life and non-
Aboriginal dwellers in Pt. Augusta.
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