Serena Nanda's Neither Man nor Woman, published by Wadsworth in 1990, is a widely cited ethnographic study of the hijras of India, based on Nanda's own fieldwork and interviews documenting their social organization, religious roles and place within Indian society. Its strength is that it remains a standard textbook reference in anthropology courses on gender and has been reprinted in multiple editions since. Its limit is that its fieldwork dates to the 1980s, and the legal and social status of hijras in India has changed substantially since, including the 2014 Supreme Court recognition of a third gender, so a claim about contemporary hijra life or law needs a more recent source alongside this study.
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AuthorSerena Nanda
PublisherWadsworth
Publication Year1990
Source TypeEthnography
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Published by Wadsworth, an academic monograph and textbook press, Serena Nanda's scholarly ethnographic study, peer reviewed university-level anthropology. NotesEthnographic study of the hijras of India.
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Source Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of IndiaSerena Nanda
Claims Backed By This Source (32 claims)
This source backs 32 claims across the atlas. As facts: 23 well-attested. As cited relationships: 6 holds. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Practices, 14 claims: 10 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Deities, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 3 claims: 3 well-attested.
- Religious Roles & Titles, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
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