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The Ends of Kinship
Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York
Drawing on more than two decades of fieldwork with people in and from Mustang, this book combines narrative ethnography and short fiction to engage with foundational questions in cultural anthropology: How do different generations abide with and understand each other? How are traditions defended and transformed in the context of new mobilities? Anthropologist Sienna Craig draws on khora, the Tibetan Buddhist notion of cyclic existence as well as the daily act of circumambulating the sacred, to think about cycles of movement and patterns of world-making, shedding light on how kinship remains both firm and flexible in the face of migration. From a high Himalayan kingdom to the streets of Brooklyn and Queens,
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Reviews
"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 "[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
Endorsements
"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
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8 b&w illus., 2 maps | |
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304 | |
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