The Ends of Kinship

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The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York
Sienna R. Craig
2021, pp. xvi+280

“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

FOR CENTURIES, people from Mustang, Nepal, have relied on agriculture, pastoralism, and trade as a way of life. Seasonal migrations to South Asian cities for trade as well as temporary wage labor abroad have shaped their modern experiences. More recently, permanent migrations to New York City, where many have settled, are recasting lives and social worlds. As a result, Mustang has experienced one of the highest rates of depopulation in contemporary Nepal—a profoundly visible loss that contrasts with the relative invisibility of Himalayan migrants in New York.