Serena Nanda
Serena Nanda | |
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| Born | August 13, 1938 New York City, U.S. |
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| Education | New York University (PhD) |
| Notable awards | Ruth Benedict Prize (1990) |
Serena Nanda (born August 13, 1938) is an American author,
professor emeritus. She received the Ruth Benedict Prize in 1990 for her monograph
, Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India.
Biography
Serena Nanda was born on August 13, 1938, in New York Cityhijras of India.[3][4] As of August 2021, she was a professor emeritus at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.[5]
Awards
- 1990, Ruth Benedict Prize, Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India[6]
Selected works
- Urban Systems Analysis: An Anthropological Perspective, 1971
- Social honor and informal social relationships : a study of kinship, friendship and neighbor relations in Bombay, India, 1973
- Teaching Nonanthropology Majors, 1979
- Cultural Anthropology. Van Nostrand, New York, New York, 1980, ISBN 0-442-25736-8.
- More Dialogue on the "Bloodthirsty" Semai, 1988
- Neither Man nor Woman. The Hijras of India. Wadsworth, Belmont, California, 1990, ISBN 0-534-12204-3.
- American Cultural Pluralism and Law: An Innovative Interdisciplinary Course, 1990
- Getting away with murder: Cultural diversity and the criminal justice system, 1994
- Trouble in paradise: Native Hawaiians V. The United States of America, 1996
- Goes With Everything, 1999
- Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations., 2000, Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc. ISBN 1-57766-074-9.
- North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment: From Prehistory to the Present , 2002
- Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us: Perceptions and Representations of “the West” by Other Peoples of the World , 2003
- South African Museums and the Creation of a New National Identity, 2004
- with Joan Gregg and Beth Pacheco: 40 Perfect New York Days. Walks and Rambles in and around the City. iUniverse, New York, New York, 2004, ISBN 0-595-29742-0.
- Arranging a marriage in India, 2006
- The gift of a bride : a tale of anthropology, matrimony, and murder, 2009
- Assisted dying : an ethnographic murder mystery on Florida's gold coast, 2011
- Motivating New Students, 2012
- Gender diversity : crosscultural variations, second edition, 2014, Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4786-1126-4.
- Culture counts : a concise introduction to cultural anthropology, 2015
- Love and marriage : cultural diversity in a changing world, 2019, Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4786-3755-4.
References
- ^ "Serena Nanda". www.seniorwomen.com. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
- ^ "NYU Department of Anthropology".
- ^ Beauchamp, Zack (16 April 2014). "There is a third gender in India, and the law finally recognized them". Vox. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ Shields, Rachel (21 February 2010). "India's 'third sex' win a measure of public acceptance". Independent. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "Serena Nanda". John Jay College of Criminal Justice. 23 March 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
- ^ "Ruth Benedict Prize". Minnesota State University Moorhead. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
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[Category:20th-century American writers]]