73
Reserve people have kinship relations with tradition-
oriented people and with town Aboriginal people.
In such an interaction it was claimed by ’reality definers’
that urban Aborigines possess structures of an Aboriginal society
distinct from white society, though individually, in housing and
employment, many may be physically integrated into a white urban
wor1d.
*
V
For these people there is a number of possible interactions.
They may interact with white people, they may interact with reserve
dwellers, they may respect and even identify to an extent with
tradition-oriented people and indeed receive some degree of education
from them. Such education and interaction is seen by many of those
interviewed at Pt. Augusta as leading to a society parallel to non-
Aboriginal society.
The parallel society sees itself ^ combining elements of the
different symbolic universes of tradition-oriented and urban
Aborigines and building a new sense of identity, locating the self
in a ’world’ of meaning that may be termed syncretic.
і
4
√
I
⅛
Ї '■
і
I
Γ
⅜
4
* h
⅜
f 1
■1
[
J
I
I
Ї
I
6.23 Evolving Structure III - integration∕mediated Aboriginality (Adelaide)
The Aboriginal people of Adelaide by and large are acculturated
and integrated into mainstream society.
In this model, while there is some small interaction with
tradition-oriented people, on the whole interaction takes place
within sub-groupings and between sub-groupings of Aboriginal
I
people, in particular those from Point Pearce and those from j
L
Point McLeay. > і
I f
• і
For these urban people, Aboriginality is mediated in
I
I
t
г
+
1
that they must learn about Aboriginal culture in the same
