The name is absent

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permits an additional role - junior wife and typist. In such a

new departure, status and prestige are found outside the ’traditional’

typifications but firmly within the evolving typifications. In

the conservation and adaptation of typifications, clearly, to

use a favourite Strelley phrase, the marrngu are the boss. The
white world, as a source of control, is peripheral.

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However, there are other situations requiring the forging of
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new structures and new typifications not provided for at all in a

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’world’ where the Law structured society. Strelley sees itself in

this instance, not as being acted upon by the white world or even             ;

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interacting with the white world, but as taking from the white world          і

those elements it needs.

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14,5 Construction of new typifications and roles - a taking from             ∣

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The Strelley Mob maintains that their world is contiguous to             ;

white society - that they take from white society those structures
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they need.                                                                              і

New social structures have been developed, such as committees
and councils to run the total enterprise, the school and the pastoral
programme. Clearly, there has been a ’taking’ from white society,
with corresponding examples of new typifications and institutionalization
of such typifications.

Roles attached to membership of committees are clearly
demarcated; typifications are institutionalized and given form
in the establishment of correct protocol to be observed.

New typifications may be observed in the interaction of the
marrngu with certain white people who are brought within the Strelley
world and typified as consociates. Teachersaretypified and given J
roles of communicating white man’s knowledge. Their role is precise. :
It does not include ’education’, which is the role of the community. ;

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