Susan P. Schoelwer. Connecticut Needlework: Women, Art, and Family, 1740–1840. Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society; distributed by Wesleyan University Press, 2010. 240 pp.; 205 color and 20 black-and-white illustrations. $30.00.
Intimations of Mortality: Dreams of a Buddhist Anthropologist The Awakened Ones: Phenomenology of Visionary Experience. By Gananath Obeyesekere. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.