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By Francesca Merlan
Caging the Rainbow explores the lives of Aborigines within the small local city of Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia. Francesca Merlan combines ethnography and idea to grapple with matters surrounding the talk in regards to the authenticity of up to date cultural task. all through, the vulnerability of Fourth global peoples to others' representations of them and the moral difficulties this poses are stored in view.
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In April 1973, Soupy Marapunyah’s eldest son, Jimmy, was killed in a car accident; alcohol was involved. Everybody who knew Soupy emphasized that this son was his pride and joy and that he grieved terribly for him. Several days after Jimmy’s death, Soupy died; some who were close to him say he poisoned himself in his anguish. Ted Morris observed, “When Soupy died, it [the camp] disintegrated. ” After Soupy’s death, some camp members left and went to Bamyili settlement (see map 1). For some time before this, a white man named Peter Lewis, who worked with underprivileged (including Aboriginal) children in town, had taken camp residents out for weekends on one of the CSIRO trucks.
J. (“Flip”) Phillips, who came to 38 • chapter one the Katherine station as technician crop agronomist, became an experiment officer, and eventually took over as officer in charge after Arndt left in 1959. Phillips and Ted Morris, who was lab technician for some years from 1966, still live in Katherine, and both have kindly given me insights into life at the CSIRO camp; other views and information have come from Aboriginal people who lived there. Both Morris and Phillips spoke of the Aboriginal camp as friendly, intimate, and exceptionally clean.
When Alice saw that I was not to be moved, she and I just sat and talked quietly until the commotion died down. Before I left some hours later, she had introduced me to some women and her old husband and several other men of similar age who sat off by themselves, nursing a few cans of beer. She introduced me to them loudly, but they were impassive, just nodding a quiet greeting: they seemed to want to be left in peace. Alice shortly took to treating me the way she treated her other female camp mates, explaining that since I was her “little sister,” I had to work for her.