R Craig

Biographic Data

ID16631
NAMER Craig
GIVEN NAMESR
FAMILY NAMECraig
SIGNATURECRAIG R
AFFILIATIONSDartmouth College
ORCID0000-0002-6760-762X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS54
TOTAL CITATIONS73
AUTHOR COUNT54
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Traveling with

    Open AccessR Craig, Kunzom Thakuri et al.ARTICLEAnthropology & Humanism2026

    This creative ethnographic essay emerges from an ongoing comparative and collaborative research project being conducted with two culturally Tibetan regions of highland Nepal and those from these regions living in urban Nepal and the greater New York City area. Although the broader project is engaging Himalayan elders as well as their families, communities, and caregivers through methods that include demographic surveys, interviews, life histories…

  • Diverging migration patterns in Nepal

    Geoff Childs, R Craig et al.ARTICLEAsian Population Studies2025References: 4

  • Himalayan Flashes

    Open AccessCarole Mcgranahan, R Craig et al.ARTICLEHIMALAYA2024

  • Ruins in the Making

    Open AccessR Craig, Sienna R CraigARTICLEHIMALAYA2024

    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 ethno…

  • Stories are Reasons

    Open AccessR Craig, Sienna R CraigARTICLEHIMALAYA2023

  • The Politics and Poetics of Himalayan Lives

    Open AccessR Craig, Sienna R CraigARTICLEHIMALAYA2023

  • Beyond the Limits

    Open AccessL A Meek, A H Neely et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2023

  • Transgression, Ransom, Remedy

    Open AccessR Craig, Sienna R CraigARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2023Cited by: 1

  • Beyond the Limits

    Open AccessL A Meek, A H Neely et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2023

  • Beyond the Limits

    Open AccessL A Meek, A H Neely et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2023

    Medical Anthropology QuarterlyEarly View Opinion Beyond the Limits: Conversation, Part III Laura A. Meek, Corresponding Author Laura A. Meek [email protected] Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Corresponding author: Laura A. Meek Email: [email protected] Abigail H. Neely Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorAbigail H. Neely, Corresponding Author Abigail H. Neely [e…

  • Beyond the Limits

    Open AccessL A Meek, A H Neely et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2023

  • Beyond the Limits

    Open AccessL A Meek, A H Neely et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2023

  • Un-disciplined

    Open AccessCarole Mcgranahan, R Craig et al.ARTICLEAnthropology & Humanism2023References: 1

    This flash essay introduces a special section on flash ethnography. We consider how and why this genre has emerged as a vital intervention for ethnographic practice and theoretical storytelling. We invite questions about the value, methods, and scope of this form-a move toward un-disciplining our writing and offering new ways of thinking about ethnographic wholes

  • Buddhist Healing Practices

    R Craig, Sienna R CraigCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Buddhist…2022

    This chapter discusses Buddhist approaches to healing, health, and illness within the context of Himalayan and Tibetan communities. It is framed around an ethnographic exploration of how practitioners of Sowa Rigpa (gso ba rig pa), the Tibetan “science of healing,” responded to the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal. By highlighting the roles of these practitioners—at once doctors and monks or tantric ritual specialists—in responding to individual and col…

  • Repeatability of adaptive traits among ethnic Tibetan highlanders

    Open AccessCynthia M Beall, Geoff Childs et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2022

    OBJECTIVES: Connecting traits to biological pathways and genes relies on stable observations. Researchers typically determine traits once, expecting careful study protocols to yield measurements free of noise. This report examines that expectation with test-retest repeatability analyses for traits used regularly in research on adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia, often in settings without climate control. METHODS: Two hundred ninety-one ethnic Ti…

  • Teacher

    R Craig, Sienna R CraigARTICLEAnthropology Now2022References: 1

  • Global Pandemic, Translocal Medicine

    R Craig, Nawang Tsering Gurung et al.ARTICLEAsian Medicine2021

    This article analyzes the audio diaries of a Tibetan physician, originally from Amdo (Qinghai Province, China), now living in New York City. Dr. Kunchog Tseten describes his experiences during the first wave of the COVID -19 pandemic, in spring and summer 2020, when Queens, New York—the location where he lives and works—was the “epicenter of the epicenter” of the novel coronavirus outbreak in the United States. The collaborative research project …

  • Unsettling the American Dream

    Open AccessTashi W Gurung, Emily Amburgey et al.ARTICLEDevelopment and Change2021Cited by: 1References: 33

    New York City (NYC) garnered significant national and international attention when it emerged as the coronavirus epicentre in the USA, in spring 2020. As has been widely documented, this crisis has disproportionately impacted minority, immigrant and marginalized communities. Among those affected were people from Mustang, Nepal, a Himalayan region bordering Tibet. This community is often rendered invisible within larger Asian immigrant populations…

  • This Is the End

    Open AccessGeoff Childs, R Craig et al.ARTICLEHIMALAYA2021Cited by: 3

    This Is the End' presents findings from research in which the authors asked survivors of Nepal's 2015 earthquakes to describe what they know about earthquakes based on their lifelong cultural and environmental experiences, how they responded to the devastating events, and how they view these earthquakes and their aftermath in terms of cause and consequence. The research settings of Tsum, Nubri, Manang, and Mustang were in the midst of rapid socio…

  • The Ends of Kinship

    R Craig, Sienna R Craig et al.BOOKThe Ends of Kinship2020Cited by: 3

  • Sowa Rigpa Humanitarianism

    Open AccessR Craig, Sienna R Craig et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2020Cited by: 2References: 21

    This article examines the circulation of humanitarian ideas, materials, and actions in a non-biomedical and non-Judeo-Christian context: Sowa Rigpa or Tibetan medical camps in India and Nepal. Through these camps, practitioners and patients alike often overtly articulate Sowa Rigpa medicine as part of a broader humanitarian "good" motivated by a Buddhist-inflected ethics of compassion and a moral economy of care, diverging from mainstream public …

  • When We Come To It

    Open AccessR Craig, Sienna R CraigARTICLEAnthropology & Humanism2020

    Pasang awakes on April 25, 2015, in her New England college dorm room to news of a major earthquake in Nepal, where she and her family are from. She returns to Nepal that summer for a visit. In the wake of Earth's massive movements, Pasang navigates her family's ties to Mustang, Nepal, and makes a journey that at once troubles and affirms her sense of place and home

  • Orienting to Medicine

    Open AccessR Craig, Rebekah Scott et al.ARTICLECulture Medicine and Psychiatry2018

  • Geopharmaceuticals of Himalayan Sowa Rigpa medicine

    Open AccessKarma Yeshi, Tendrel Wangdi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnopharmacology2018

  • Orality and Mobility

    Nawang Tsering Gurung, Ross Perlin et al.ARTICLEVerge Studies in Global Asias2018

    Orality and mobility: Documenting Himalayan voices in New York City