Serena Nanda

Biography

Awards

• 1990, Ruth Benedict Prize, Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India

  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,.
• More Dialogue on the "Bloodthirsty" Semai, 1988
• Neither Man nor Woman. The Hijras of India. Wadsworth, Belmont, California, 1990,.
• 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..
• 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,.
• 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, IL: Waveland Press, Inc..
• Culture counts : a concise introduction to cultural anthropology, 2015
• Love and marriage : cultural diversity in a changing world, 2019, Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc..