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{{Use Indian English|date=December 2018}}'''Moni Nag''' (1925 – 7 December 2015) was an Indian [[Anthropology|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.<ref name=obit>{{cite news |title=Anthropologist Moni Nag no more |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |date=11 December 2015 |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Anthropologist-Moni-Nag-no-more/articleshow/50131018.cms |agency=TNN |access-date=13 December 2018 }}</ref><ref name=bio>{{cite book |editor=Moni Nag |title=Population and Social Organization |location=The Hague / Paris |publisher=Mouton |year=1975 |isbn=9789027975898 |contribution=Moni Nag |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ejUVGnqnKiEC&pg=PA353 |page=353 }}</ref> He started his career in the [[Indian Statistical Institute]]{{citation needed|date=October 2017}} 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.<ref name=obit/><ref name=bio/> He was also a senior associate in the [[Population Council]] in New York<ref name=anthro>{{cite web |url=https://anthropologyworks.com/2015/12/14/anthro-in-the-news-12142015-7/ |title=Anthro in the news 12/14/2015: in memoriam |website=Anthropologyworks |date=14 December 2015 |access-date=11 October 2017 }}</ref> and a patron and vice president of the Elmhirst Institute of Community Studies at [[Santiniketan]],<ref name=obit/> and served as chair of the population commission in the [[International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences]].<ref name=bio/>

==Research and publications==
Nag was a pioneer of demographic anthropology.<ref name=anthro/> 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]];<ref name=obit/><ref name=anthro/><ref>{{cite book |author1=Shalina Mehta |author2=Suninder K. Sodhi |contribution=Target Interventions in Prevention: Lessons to be Learnt |title=Understanding AIDS: Myths, Efforts and Achievements |location=New Delhi |publisher=A. P. H. |year=2008 |isbn=9788176485425 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zvsh6BvVPY8C&pg=PA216 |pages=215–18 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Moni Nag |title=Preventing AIDS among Sex Workers |journal= Economic and Political Weekly |volume=38 |issue=40 |date=4–10 October 2003 |pages=4209–10 |jstor=4414097 }} {{cite journal |author=Moni Nag |title=Sex Workers in Sonagachi: Pioneers of a Revolution |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |volume=40 |issue=49 |date=3–9 December 2005 |pages=5151–56 |jstor=4417483 }} Response in {{cite journal |author=Swati Ghosh |title=Empowerment of Sex Workers: The Kolkata Experience |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |volume=41 |issue=13 |date=1–7 April 2006 |pages=1289–91 |jstor=4418032 }} Cited in {{cite book |author1=Sangeeta Bhatia |author2=Nandini Sethi |contribution=History and Theory of Community Psychology in India: An International Perspective |editor=Stephanie Michelle Reich |title=International Community Psychology: History and Theories |location=New York / London |publisher=Springer |year=2007 |isbn=9780387495002 |pages=180–99 |doi=10.1007/978-0-387-49500-2_9 }}</ref> he was one of several academics working with the [[Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee]] there.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://durbar.org/html/research_training.aspx |title=Research & Training |publisher=[[Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee]] |archive-url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JAF1gEl4RpIJ:durbar.org/html/research_training.aspx+&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us |archive-date=2 September 2017 }}</ref>

===Selected books===
* ''Factors Affecting Human Fertility in Nonindustrial Societies: A Cross-Cultural Study'' (Yale University, 1962)<ref>{{cite journal |author=Paul H. Gebhard |title=Review: ''Factors Affecting Human Fertility in Nonindustrial Societies: A Cross-Cultural Study''. Moni Nag |journal=American Anthropologist|volume=New Series 65 |issue=4 |date=August 1963 |pages=970–71 |jstor=668985 |doi=10.1525/aa.1963.65.4.02a00560|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Raúl Benítez Zenteno |title=Moni Nag. ''Factors Affecting Human Fertility in Nonindustrial Societies: A Cross-Cultural Study'' |journal=Revista Mexicana de Sociología |volume=25 |issue=3 |date=September–December 1963 |pages=1148–49 |doi=10.2307/3538591 |jstor=3538591 |language=Spanish }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Edwin D. Driver |title=Review: ''Factors Affecting Human Fertility in Nonindustrial Societies: A Cross-Cultural Study''. By Moni Nag |journal= American Journal of Sociology |volume=69 |issue=6 |date=May 1964 |page=669 |jstor=2774334 |doi=10.1086/223708}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=F. W. Clements |title=Review: ''Factors Affecting Human Fertility in Non-Industrial Societies. A Cross Cultural Study''. By Moni Nag |journal=Archaeology & Physical Anthropology in Oceania |volume=2 |issue=1 |date=April 1967 |pages=79–80 |jstor=40386001 }}</ref>
* ''Population and Social Organization'' (editor; Mouton, 1975)<ref>{{cite journal |author=M. G. |title=Review: Nag, Moni. ed. ''Population and Social Organization'' |journal=Population and Development Review |volume=2 |issue=2 |date=June 1976 |page=291 |doi=10.2307/1972037 |jstor=1972037 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author= Nathan Keyfitz |title=Review: ''Population and Social Organization''. Edited by Moni Nag |journal=American Journal of Sociology |volume=82 |issue=6 |date=May 1977 |pages=1402–03 |jstor=2777962 |doi=10.1086/226492}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Tony L. Whitehead |title=Review: ''Population and Social Organization''. Moni Nag, ed. |journal= Medical Anthropology Newsletter |volume=8 |issue=4 |date=August 1977 |pages=28–29 |jstor=647562 }}</ref>
* ''Sexual Behaviour and AIDS in India'' (Vikas, 1996)<ref>{{cite journal |author=Lynellyn D. Long |title=Review: Moni Nag. ''Sexual Behavior and AIDS in India'' |journal=Studies in Family Planning |volume=28 |issue=2 |date=June 1997 |pages=163–65 |doi=10.2307/2138120 |jstor=2138120 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Michael R. Stevenson |title=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 |journal=The Journal of Sex Research |volume=34 |issue=3 |year=1997 |pages=313–15 |jstor=3813390 |doi=10.1080/00224499709551897 }}</ref>
* ''Sex Workers of India: Diversity in Practice of Prostitution and Ways of Life'' (Allied Publishers, 2006)<ref>{{cite journal |author=Karen Pechilis |title=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 |journal= The Journal of Sex Research |volume=44 |issue=4 |date=November 2007 |pages=401–04 |jstor=20620327 |doi=10.1080/00224490701629563}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Manisha Shah |title=Review: Moni Nag. ''Sex Workers of India: Diversity in Practice of Prostitution and Ways of Life'' |journal=Economic Development and Cultural Change |volume=57 |issue=1 |date=October 2008 |pages=200–03 |doi=10.1086/590480 |jstor=590480 }}</ref>

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