Landlords and Lodgers

Deborah Pellow is professor of anthropology and director of Integrated Studies in Space and Place at Syracuse University. She is the author of numerous books, including Setting Boundaries: The Anthropology of Spatial and Social Organization.

"This richly observed and lovingly constructed portrait of a distinctive community will be of interest to spatially informed scholars of religion, immigration, minority communities, and gender." - Gender, Place and Culture "This theoretically informed, well-researched, and closely written book should be quite useful.... A fine case study of urban sense of place in a unique, yet in some ways emblematic, West African neighborhood." - Gareth Myers, Professional Geographer "A valuable study of the interconnectedness between the built environment, social practices, and changing identity. Pellow's intimate familiarity with the setting, history, and people of Sabon Zongo has enabled her to produce a rare urban ethnography that does justice to the macro structure and functions of the city without losing sight of the individual actors who inhabit and reproduce Accra's physicality and meaning." - Trevor Marchand, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review"