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Deborah Pellow's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
Masters Anthropology University of Chicago
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Deborah Pellow is an American anthropologist. She is a professor emerita at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She is known for her work on urbanization and the anthropology of space and place in West Africa, particularly in Ghana.

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Multiple Modernities (2015) (910)
Women and Class in Africa (1986) (103)
Landlords and Lodgers: Socio-Spatial Organization in an Accra Community (2002) (86)
Ghana: Coping With Uncertainty (1986) (82)
Setting Boundaries: The Anthropology of Spatial and Social Organization (1996) (61)
Cultural differences and urban spatial forms: Elements of boundedness in an accra community (2001) (45)
Women in Accra: Options for Autonomy (1977) (43)
Muslim Segmentation: Cohesion and Divisiveness in Accra (1985) (40)
The Power of Space in the Evolution of an Accra Zongo (1991) (34)
Internal transmigrants: A Dagomba diaspora (2011) (23)
What housing does: changes in an Accra community (1988) (23)
Spaces That Teach (1992) (22)
New Spaces in Accra: transnational houses (2003) (19)
Sexuality in Africa (1990) (15)
STDs and AIDS in Ghana. (1994) (14)
Women in Accra, Options for Autonomy (1979) (13)
work and autonomy: women in Accra (1978) (12)
Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers: History, Politics, and Land Ownership in Northern Ghana (2014) (8)
Recent Studies on African Women (1977) (8)
Oppression and Resistance: The Struggle of Women in Southern Africa@@@Women in Accra: Options for Autonomy (1982) (7)
The Self-Consciousness of Placemaking (2008) (7)
The New Urban Community: Mutual Relevance of the Social and Physical Environments. (1981) (6)
Solidarity among Muslim Women in Accra, Ghana (1987) (6)
An Interview with John Middleton (1999) (5)
Migrant Communities in Accra: Marginalizing the Margins (2002) (5)
Male praise-singers in Accra: in the company of women (1997) (3)
Foreign Remittances in Ghana: Reducing the Poverty Gap for Individuals and the Community (2012) (3)
Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa: Indigenous Accumulation in Hausaland. Paul Clough. New York: Berghahn, 2014. 468 pp. (2017) (2)
Built Structures and Planning (2014) (2)
An American Teachers' Strike in China: Misreading Cultural Codes (1986) (2)
Social Ecology of South Commons. Final Report on Work Completed for the Office of Child Development, Planning Grant OCD-CB-486 (6/1/73-3/3/74). (1974) (1)
Lars Engberg‐Pedersen.Endangering Development: Politics, Projects, and Environment in Burkina Faso. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. Pp. 170. (2005) (1)
Chieftaincy, collective interests and the dagomba new elite (2013) (1)
Sub-Saharan (1979) (1)
Women's Status, Feminist Consciousness, and Studies about African Women (1980) (0)
Lawrence‐Zúñiga, Denise. Protecting suburban America: gentrification, advocacy and the historic imaginary. xi, 195 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Bloomsbury, 2016. £85.00 (cloth) (2021) (0)
A New African Elite (2022) (0)
A New African Elite: Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation (2022) (0)
Foreign Remittances in Ghana (2011) (0)
Setting Boundaries: The Anthropology of Spatial and Social Organization. (1997) (0)
Book Review:Scenes from African Urban Life: Collected Copperbelt Essays A. L. Epstein (1996) (0)
Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger (2020) (0)
Mothers and Wives: Gusll Woman of East Africa. SARAH LEVINE. (1980) (0)
John Francis Marchmant Middleton (2009) (0)
Considering Enacted Cultural History: Bori in Accra (1998) (0)
Adrian Adams and Jaabe So.A Claim to Land by the River: A Household in Senegal, 1720–1994. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. 300. $98.00 (cloth). (2002) (0)
WEST AFRICAN STRANGERS IN BRAZZAVILLE (2013) (0)
“Everybody Thinks They Can Build”: The Architect as Cultural Intermediary in Ghana (2014) (0)
The Development of Islam in West Africa by Mervyn Hiskett London and New York, Longman, 1984. Pp. xiii+353. £19.95. £6.95 paperback. (1987) (0)
Attachment sustains: The glue of prepared food (2007) (0)
African materiality and the house (2018) (0)
Talking Space… At a Distance (2000) (0)
Obituary of James Duffy (2000) (0)
John Francis Marchment Middleton (1921–2009) (2010) (0)
Recreating community: New housing for amui djor residents (2015) (0)
Architectural Innovation: Transforming the Urban Millieu (2016) (0)
Oboler Regina Smith. Women, Power, and Economic Change: The Nandi of Kenya . Stanford University Press, 1985. 348 pp. (1986) (0)
The History of Sexually STDs and AIDS in Ghana (2005) (0)
Africa and Urban Anthropology (2023) (0)
The Making of an African King: Patrilineal and Matrilineal Struggle among the Effutu of Ghana (2011) (0)

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