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Landlords and Lodgers analyzes the results of a long-term study of a Ghanaian zongo, or stranger quartera place of refuge for Hausa migrants from northern Nigeria who have relocated to the city of Accra. Deborah Pellow explores the relationships among community members both in terms of the built structuresrooms, doors, communal structures, and hallwaysand of the social networks, institutions, and routine activities that define this unique urban neighborhood. This volume will be useful to students and scholars of the relationships between architecture, migration, and social change.
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
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
Binding :Paperback
Label :University Of Chicago Press
Manufacturer :University Of Chicago Press
ProductGroup :Book
Studio :University Of Chicago Press
Publisher :University Of Chicago Press
EAN :9780226653976
Price :$22.50USD
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