A House of My Own Social Organization in the Squatter Settlements of Lima, Peru Susan Lobo
"A fairly comprehensive monograph, highly suitable for classroom use, that offers a wide range of information fit into traditional anthropological categories ... an interesting study of cultural integrity and pattern in a setting of what appears to be complex sociopolitical chaos." —American Anthropologist
"Whether or not one acepts Susan Lobo's optimistic analysis, her ability to translate the apparent chaos of shanty-town lives into such neat patterns and to help outsiders view life as the inhabitants do are important contributions." —Inter-American Review of Bibliography
"An extremely competent ethnography, simple and straightforward." —Anthropos
"A pleasure to read, a mine of information which will be useful in teaching students to formulate their own hypotheses."—International Journal of Urban & Regional Research
"Very well written and provides a great wealth of the liveliest sort of ethnographic detail."—Latin American Research Review
"Lobo's study of two squatter settlements in Lima provides a solid, well-written, detailed, traditional ethnography of poor families in a Third World urban setting."—Hispanic American Historical Review
190 pp./6x9/1982 (5th ptg.) Paper (8165-0761-9) $17.95s
