UID:
almafu_9960177976802883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages) :
,
illustrations, maps ;
ISBN:
0-295-74770-6
Series Statement:
Global South Asia
Content:
"Ends of Kinship explores dynamics of migration and social change between Nepal and New York City. It asks how individuals, families, and communities care for each other and carve out spaces of belonging from high mountain villages in the Himalayan region of Mustang, on the border with Tibet, to the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. Drawing on more than two decades of fieldwork with people in and from Mustang, this ethnography engages with foundational questions in cultural anthropology: What makes and sustains kinship? What does education prepare us for? How are traditions governing birth, death, marriage, and moral economies defended and transformed? How do different generations abide with and understand each other? The Tibetan Buddhist notion of khora encompasses cyclic existence as well as the daily act of circumambulating the sacred in order to make and remake oneself. Sienna Craig draws on this concept to think about cycles of mobility and patterns of world-making between Nepal and New York. Stylistically, Ends of Kinship contributes to experiments in ethnographic writing. Its core chapters are written as teachable and publicly accessible literary ethnography. Between the chapters sit short stories that present a sense of some of the most difficult aspects of migration while respecting the privacy of the author's informants. Line drawings by Tibetan thangka artist Tenzin Norbu illustrate the contrasting worlds in which Mustangis now encounter the central life experiences addressed in each chapter"--
Note:
Recognition and gratitude -- Map of Mustang, Nepal -- Map of Himalayan languages in New York City -- Introduction -- Part I. Attending to birth -- Blood and bone -- Finding the womb door -- Part II. Parents and children -- Letters for mother -- Going for education -- Part III. Subsistence and strategy -- Paper and being -- Bringing home the trade -- Part IV. Women and men -- Night visitors -- At the threshold of this life -- Part V. Land and lineage -- Gods and demons -- The ground beneath our feet -- Part VI. Loss and transformation -- Three seasons in the fire monkey year -- Between presence and absence.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-295-74768-4
Language:
English
