Indian anthropologist
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[citation needed] 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]
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