A HOUSE OF MY OWN

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 accepts 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
This well-written account …has a lot of heart and feeling for the human face of the urban poor.

International Migration Review