The Ends of Kinship

"[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."

"This book will hold the attention of anyone interested in Nepal, migration, or diasporic experiences. It is complex yet accessible."

"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."

"[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."

"[A] remarkable ethnography of connection across geographical, temporal, socio-cultural, political, and economic borders."

"[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."

"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."

"Life at the ends of kinship is exposed here through masterful storytelling, giving us a glimpse into the sadness, hopes and joys of Nepalis on the move."

"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."

"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."