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"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." ÑAmerican 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." ÑInter-American Review of Bibliography

"An extremely competent ethnography, simple and straightforward." ÑAnthropos

"A pleasure to read, a mine of information which will be useful in teaching students to formulate their own hypotheses." ÑInternational Journal of Urban & Regional Research

"Very well written and provides a great wealth of the liveliest sort of ethnographic detail." ÑLatin 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." ÑHispanic American Historical Review

"This well-written account . . . has a lot of heart and feeling for the human face of the urban poor." ÑInternational Migration Review