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The Significance of the “Hole” Community in Anthropological Studies 1
Author(s) -
Richardson Miles
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1967.69.1.02a00050
Subject(s) - peasant , slang , poverty , rural community , sociology , complement (music) , history , anthropology , genealogy , ethnology , gender studies , geography , socioeconomics , political science , archaeology , law , linguistics , biology , philosophy , biochemistry , complementation , gene , phenotype
Communities of complex cultures are residential expressions of national institutions and of total socio‐cultural organization. The small, rural community of a complex culture is a complement to the large city. Unlike Indian and traditional peasant communities, the “hole” community is closely embedded in the larger society; its customs and ceremonies are those found in the city, but they are thinned out and made unimpressive by poverty. The presence of unimpressive urban patterns makes the community into what is called in American slang a “hole.”