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Domestic Government: Kinship, Community, and Polity in North Yemen , by Martha Mundy. (Society and Culture in the Modern Middle East) 334 pages, maps, figures, tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, index. New York: I.B. Taurus, 1995. $59.95 (Cloth) ISBN 1-85043-918-4

moral unity that was the bedrock of Muslim identity. The succeeding mass rapes and burning of homes is rendered all the more tragic by an understanding of the centrality of women and the household to maintaining Muslim identity. Muslims differed from Serbs and Croatians in that their collective identity was not perceived through the idiom of common descent but rather through this moral unity. Muslim focus on shared cultural practices, experiences, sentiment and environment made Muslim claims to nationality—and therefore to land—"illegitimate" in the present sociopolitical climate. Croat and Serb nationalists accused them of being "invented people" who could be forced during the war to "remember" their "natural" original identity (as Serbs or as Croats, depending on which side wished to claim Muslim territory). This book is about Bosnian Muslim identity just before the war, not about the tragedy that followed quickly upon the heels of the author's 1988 fieldwork. By 1993 all of the 400 Muslims in the village she studied had fled, been placed in detention camps or been killed; many of the people in the photographs are now dead. The book chronicles how the different ethnoreligious groups lived together, not why they so violently came apart. In a sense, this is a fitting tribute to the memory of what had been a functioning, cohesive community. Yet given the savage turning of neighbor against neighbor to which the author alludes—and which we have followed in the press—the reader inevitably looks for insight into how this is possible, given the integrated and in many ways parallel lives of the villagers. Bringa hints at such fractures inherent in the structure of village identities but often fails to specify their connection to the ensuing violence. It is perhaps unfair to judge a book by what its author does not set out to do, but given our need to understand what happened in Bosnia during the war, it is inevitable that the book will be scoured for clues to these pressing questions.