The name is absent

In the case of part-Europeans:

The Mob has elaborated a typification of these
people as uninitiated, sharing none of the culture
and the secret∕sacred elements of the Law that
give meaning to life; they are marta marta* oriented
towards a white life-style.

In tandem with the construction of typifications there is an
evolution of roles.                      ⁱ

Modified roles may be observed* related to elements in the contemporary

•world’, which bear a resemblance to the traditional ’world’. There
are important men who are responsible for white man’s law and schooling,

men who are responsible for relating to government agencies;

are important men and women responsible for education and re-education
back into the group.

Roles may be seen evolving in an interaction between the Strelley

Mob and neighbouring Aboriginal worlds - roles directed at restoring
the ’Business’, but also roles of a ’missionary’ nature aimed at
restoring the Law itself. Those who were once ’contemporaries’

(i.e. other tribal groups, distanced from the Mob) have become
*consociates’.

Roles from an alien world are incorporated within the group
by the appointment of white teachers and advisers. They also become
consociates.

Clearly* the construction of typifications and roles results
from interaction between the Mob and the worlds of predecessors,
the Mob and other Aboriginal worlds, and action by the Mob upon the white
■‰.

world. The institutionalization of typifications has led

to the evolution of roles that are recognizable as variants of Aboriginal
social structures.

Thus there are observable effects of the various interactions
enumerated above:
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