The Ends of Kinship

"This book will hold the attention of anyone interested in Nepal, migration, or diasporic experiences. It is complex yet accessible."—IIAS Newsletter (International Institute for Asian Studies)

"The humanity underpinning The Ends of Kinship and the beauty of its writing are bound to inspire new scholars whose motivations for entering the discipline are not strictly intellectual; those looking for an 'anthropology of care' need look no further."—Social Anthropology

"[A] refreshing mixed-genre narrative about mobility and migration. Craig not only mixes and merges the two writing styles ofction and ethnography, she also makes the subjects of her ethnographic research come alive, just like the characters in herctional stories."—Journal of Asian Studies

"[A] remarkable ethnography of connection across geographical, temporal, socio-cultural, political, and economic borders."—HIMALAYA: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

"[T]he chapters rebound off each other, and together provide striking image of kinship in migration and change. The effect is impressive. The fiction is as ethnographically real as the ethnography is literarily true. This is a gorgeous book, one that is hard to put down, one that I would unhesitatingly recommend to anyone at all, and a book which I think conveys the power of kinship in a manner that anyone will be able to tap into, that anyone can relate to."—Kinship

"Very accessible for undergraduates in anthropology, Asian studies, or Asian American studies, this book also presents an important model for how we might engage in ethical and practical ethnography in the twenty-first century."—Journal of Asian Studies

"An exquisite portrait of a community stretched apart by migration and at the same time darned back into new shapes of connection through the world-making ties of kinship."—Stacy Pigg, Simon Fraser University

"Drawing on insights from decades of fieldwork and friendship—in Mustang and New York—this luminous, poignant book recasts ethnographic form in swirling bands of short essay, fiction, narrative ethnography, and scholarly commentary."—Kirin Narayan, author of Everyday Creativity: Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills