The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan lives between Nepal and New York, by Sienna R Craig
The Ends of Kinship is an ambitious book about care and belonging in the context of transnational mobility and migration from the Himalayan region of Mustang to New York. Contrary to how the Himalayan region has long been exoticised in Western eyes as an untouched and static ‘Himalayan Shangri-la’,...
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| Natura: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
2022
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | The Ends of Kinship is an ambitious book about care and belonging in the context of transnational mobility and migration from the Himalayan region of Mustang to New York. Contrary to how the Himalayan region has long been exoticised in Western eyes as an untouched and static ‘Himalayan Shangri-la’, Craig offers a rich ethnographic account that shows connections, transformations, pragmatism, and pluralism in the lives and livelihoods of Mustangis in a transnational setting. Drawing on over tw... |
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