Moni Nag

Moni Nag (1925 - 7 December 2015) was an Indian anthropologist specialising in the politics of sexuality.

Education and career

Born in India, Nag earned a Master's degree in statistics from the University of Calcutta in 1946 and a PhD in anthropology from Yale University in 1961.[1][2] He started his career in the Indian Statistical Institute and worked on the Anthropological Survey of India before joining the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University in New York in 1966; he was a lecturer and later an adjunct professor and headed the social demography section in the International Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction.[1][2] He was also a senior associate in the Population Council in New York[3] and a patron and vice president of the Elmhirst Institute of Community Studies at Santiniketan,[1] and served as chair of the population commission in the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.[2]

Research and publications

Nag was a pioneer of demographic anthropology.[3] He researched and published in the fields of human sexuality, fertility, family planning, HIV prevention, and sex work, with a focus on India, and both studied and worked for the rights of prostitutes in the Kolkata red-light district of Sonagachi;[1][3][4][5] he was one of several academics working with the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee there.[6]

Selected books
  • Factors Affecting Human Fertility in Nonindustrial Societies: A Cross-Cultural Study (Yale University, 1962)[7][8][9][10]
  • Population and Social Organization (editor; Mouton, 1975)[11][12][13]
  • Sexual Behaviour and AIDS in India (Vikas, 1996)[14][15]
  • Sex Workers of India: Diversity in Practice of Prostitution and Ways of Life (Allied Publishers, 2006)[16][17]

References
  1. "Anthropologist Moni Nag no more". The Times of India. TNN. 11 December 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  2. Moni Nag, ed. (1975). "Moni Nag". Population and Social Organization. The Hague / Paris: Mouton. p. 353. ISBN 9789027975898.
  3. "Anthro in the news 12/14/2015: in memoriam". Anthropologyworks. 14 December 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  4. Shalina Mehta; Suninder K. Sodhi (2008). "Target Interventions in Prevention: Lessons to be Learnt". Understanding AIDS: Myths, Efforts and Achievements. New Delhi: A. P. H. pp. 215–18. ISBN 9788176485425.
  5. Moni Nag (4–10 October 2003). "Preventing AIDS among Sex Workers". Economic and Political Weekly. 38 (40): 4209–10. JSTOR 4414097. Moni Nag (3–9 December 2005). "Sex Workers in Sonagachi: Pioneers of a Revolution". Economic and Political Weekly. 40 (49): 5151–56. JSTOR 4417483. Response in Swati Ghosh (1–7 April 2006). "Empowerment of Sex Workers: The Kolkata Experience". Economic and Political Weekly. 41 (13): 1289–91. JSTOR 4418032. Cited in Sangeeta Bhatia; Nandini Sethi (2007). "History and Theory of Community Psychology in India: An International Perspective". In Stephanie Michelle Reich (ed.). International Community Psychology: History and Theories. New York / London: Springer. pp. 180–99. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-49500-2_9. ISBN 9780387495002.
  6. "Research & Training". Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee. Archived from the original on 2 September 2017.
  7. Paul H. Gebhard (August 1963). "Review: Factors Affecting Human Fertility in Nonindustrial Societies: A Cross-Cultural Study. Moni Nag". American Anthropologist. New Series 65 (4): 970–71. doi:10.1525/aa.1963.65.4.02a00560. JSTOR 668985.
  8. Raúl Benítez Zenteno (September–December 1963). "Moni Nag. Factors Affecting Human Fertility in Nonindustrial Societies: A Cross-Cultural Study". Revista Mexicana de Sociología (in Spanish). 25 (3): 1148–49. doi:10.2307/3538591. JSTOR 3538591.
  9. Edwin D. Driver (May 1964). "Review: Factors Affecting Human Fertility in Nonindustrial Societies: A Cross-Cultural Study. By Moni Nag". American Journal of Sociology. 69 (6): 669. doi:10.1086/223708. JSTOR 2774334.
  10. F. W. Clements (April 1967). "Review: Factors Affecting Human Fertility in Non-Industrial Societies. A Cross Cultural Study. By Moni Nag". Archaeology & Physical Anthropology in Oceania. 2 (1): 79–80. JSTOR 40386001.
  11. M. G. (June 1976). "Review: Nag, Moni. ed. Population and Social Organization". Population and Development Review. 2 (2): 291. doi:10.2307/1972037. JSTOR 1972037.
  12. Nathan Keyfitz (May 1977). "Review: Population and Social Organization. Edited by Moni Nag". American Journal of Sociology. 82 (6): 1402–03. doi:10.1086/226492. JSTOR 2777962.
  13. Tony L. Whitehead (August 1977). "Review: Population and Social Organization. Moni Nag, ed". Medical Anthropology Newsletter. 8 (4): 28–29. JSTOR 647562.
  14. Lynellyn D. Long (June 1997). "Review: Moni Nag. Sexual Behavior and AIDS in India". Studies in Family Planning. 28 (2): 163–65. doi:10.2307/2138120. JSTOR 2138120.
  15. Michael R. Stevenson (1997). "Review: Research and HIV in the Developing World. Sexual Behavior and AIDS in India by Moni Nag; Sexual Behavior and AIDS in the Developing World by John Cleland, Benoît Ferry". The Journal of Sex Research. 34 (3): 313–15. doi:10.1080/00224499709551897. JSTOR 3813390.
  16. Karen Pechilis (November 2007). "Review: Progress toward an Open Discussion of Sexuality in India and Asia. Sex Workers of India: Diversity in Practice of Prostitution and Ways of Life. By Moni Nag; Sexuality, Gender and Rights: Exploring Theory and Practice in South and Southeast Asia. By Geetanjali Misra, Radhika Chandiramani". The Journal of Sex Research. 44 (4): 401–04. doi:10.1080/00224490701629563. JSTOR 20620327.
  17. Manisha Shah (October 2008). "Review: Moni Nag. Sex Workers of India: Diversity in Practice of Prostitution and Ways of Life". Economic Development and Cultural Change. 57 (1): 200–03. doi:10.1086/590480. JSTOR 590480.
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