Ruins in the Making

Authors

  • Sienna R Craig

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2218/himalaya.2024.9162

Keywords:

Flash ethnography, Mustang, climate change, migration, sacred geography

Abstract

What do high Himalayan villages feel like as they shift in form and character through patterns of outmigration and the effects of climate change? How do people wrestle with enduring connections to place, through the pain and uncertainty that accompanies social and ecological change? What does it mean to steward a landscape and attend to sacred geography as well as history through these transitions? These questions are explored in this flash ethnography, set in the village of Samdzong, upper Mustang, Nepal.

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Published

04-Oct-2024

How to Cite

Ruins in the Making. (2024). HIMALAYA - The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 43(2), 38-40. https://doi.org/10.2218/himalaya.2024.9162