Review of "Landlords and Lodgers: socio-spatial organisation in an Accra community" by D. Pellow

Marchand, Trevor H.J.

Abstract

Deborah Pellow has conducted fieldwork in the Ghanaian capital ofAccra since 1970. Landlords and Lodgers is the culmination of this research, focussing on the dominantly Muslim quarter of Sabon Zongo where the author commenced a long-term project in the early 1980s. The book contains previously published material, but Pellow’s synthesis of the data provides a more comprehensive analysis of the history, social politics and evolution of Sabon Zango’s vibrant urban space. In closely considering the genealogical foundations of the community, the book’s central aim is to describe the spatialisation of changing social relations over the past century and the ways in which cultural values and practices become manifest in the built environment.

Citation

Marchand, T. H. (2006). Review of "Landlords and Lodgers: socio-spatial organisation in an Accra community" by D. Pellow. Traditional dwellings and settlements review, 17(2),

• Journal Article Type: Book Review
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2006
• Deposit Date: Jun 9, 2008
• Print ISSN: 1050-2092
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 2
• Item Discussed: Landlords and Lodgers: socio-spatial organisation in an Accra community
• Publisher URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41758318