Book ReviewsMary Schoeser. Silk. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. 256 pp.; 258 color and 7 black‐and‐white illustrations, bibliography, index. $50.00.
Why Do Arabs Speak the Best Hebrew? Words and Stones: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel. By Daniel Lefkowitz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Social Transformations and West African Forms of Slavery Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories. By Benedetta Rossi, ed. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2009.
Book ReviewsDwight P. Lanmon, Lorraine Welling Lanmon, and Dominique Coulet du Gard. Josephine Foard and the Glazed Pottery of Laguna Pueblo. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. 246 pp.; 17 color + 25 black‐and‐white illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index. $39.95.
