What sustains and remakes family and community through migration?
Sienna R. Craig is associate professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College, and author of Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine.
"[A] beautifully rendered account of a community in flux, caught in the interstices between the remote, high-altitude landscapes of windswept Mustang and the bustling, multi-cultural cityscapes of New York City." (New Books Network (NBN)) "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) "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)) "[A] refreshing mixed-genre narrative about mobility and migration. Craig not only mixes and merges the two writing styles offiction and ethnography, she also makes the subjects of her ethnographic research come alive, just like the characters in herfictional 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)
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