Landlords and Lodgers: Socio-Spatial Organization in an Accra Community FROM THE PUBLISHER
Based on 25 years of research on and in Sabon Zongo, one of the oldest migrant communities in Accra, Ghana, this book explores the interconnections of community residents to one another both in terms of built space--the boundaries of community, community structures, and compounds--and social space--the social networks, institutions, activities, and routines through which Sabon Zongo residents reproduce meaning as constituted by and in their built environment.
SYNOPSIS
An analysis of Accra, Ghana, that focuses on one neighborhood, showing how the social and spatial create everyday reality.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
Pellow (anthropology, Syracuse U.) studies the social and spatial evolution of Sabon Zongo, one of the zongos, or enclaves of the Hausa Muslim community where they are able to maintain their institutional integrity within a general Christian and Western urban environment in Ghana. She chose it because it was the first zongo created consciously by the people who would live there, and its history is well documented. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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