Anthropology

Books

Khanna, Sunil K.
2010 Fetal/Fatal Knowledge: New Reproductive Technologies and Family-Building Strategies in India, Cengage/Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont, CA. (Book reviewed in Humanities and Technology Review.http://htronline.weebly.com/uploads/5/1/4/3/5143156/2010_volume_29.pdf

Khanna, Sunil K.
2007 Study Guide: Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont, CA. (3rd edition)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Henning, Margaret, Chunhuei Chi, and Sunil K. Khanna
2011 Factors Associated with Schoolteacher’s Perceived Needs and Levels of Adoption of HIV Prevention Education within the School Setting in Lusaka, Zambia. International Electronic Journal of Health Education 14, January 7.

Bennett, Linda A. and Sunil K. Khanna
2010 A Review of Tenure and Promotion Guidelines in Higher Education: Optimistic Signs for Applied, Practicing, and Public-Interest Anthropology. American Anthropologist 112(4), 648-650.

S. Sudha, Sunil. K. Khanna, S. Irudaya Rajan, and Roma Shrivastava
2009 Traditions and Transformations: Emerging Son Preference Attitudes among Nairs of Kerala. In: Unwanted Daughters: Gender Discrimination in Modern India, eds. T. V. Sekher, and Neelamber Hatti. New Delhi: Rawat Publications. Pp. 153-181.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2009 Anthropological Approaches for Understanding the Complexities of the Global Food Crisis. In: The Global Food Crisis: New Insights into an Age-Old Problem, eds. David Himmelgreen. The National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA) Bulletin 32, Washington DC: American Anthropological Association and Wiley-Blackwell. Pp. 193-200.

Khanna, Sunil K., Melissa Cheyney, and Molly Engle
2009 Cultural Competency in Health Care: Evaluating the Outcomes of a Cultural Competency Training among Health Care Professionals. Journal of the National Medical Association (JNMA) 101(9): 886-892.

Khanna, Sunil K., S. Sudha, and S. Irudaya Rajan
2009 New Reproductive Technologies and Family Building Strategies in Urban India: Converging Trends in Two Culturally Distinct Communities. Contemporary South Asia 17(2): 141-158.

S. Sudha, Sunil K. Khanna, and S. Irudaya Rajan
2007 Is Son Preference Emerging among the Nairs of Kerala in South India? In: Watering them Neighbor’s Garden: The Growing Demographic Female Deficit in Asia, eds. I. Attane and C. Z. Guilmoto, Committee for International Cooperation in National Research in Demography, Paris. Pp. 267-294.

Johnson, Becky A. and Sunil K. Khanna
2004 Community Health Workers and Home-Based Care Programs for HIV Client. Journal of the National Medical Association 96(4): 496-502.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2004 Jats. In: Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World’s Cultures, eds. Carol R. Embers and Melvin Embers, Vol. 2, New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. Pp. 777-783.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2001 Shahri Jat and Dehati Jatni: The Indian Peasant Community in Transition. Contemporary South Asia 10(1): 37-53.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2001 Pahari Jatni: Marriage, Networks, and Gender Ethnicity in an Urbanizing Jat Village in North India. The Anthropologist 2(4): 11-19.

Khanna, Sunil K. and Helen Vallianatos
1999 Distribution of Birth Weight in an “Affluent” Population in New Delhi, India. Acta Medica Auxologica 31(2): 75-85.

Khanna, Sunil K.
1999 Prenatal Sex Determination and Sex-selective Abortion in India: Some Legal Considerations. The Anthropologist 1(1):61-71.

Staiano-Ross, Kathryn and Sunil K. Khanna
1998 A Body of Signs: An Introduction to Biocultural Semiotics. RS.SI: Recherchés Semiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry 18/19(3/1):3-24.

Khanna, Sunil K.
1997 Traditions and Reproductive Technology in an Urbanizing North Indian Village. Social Science & Medicine 44(2):171-180.

Khanna, Sunil K.
1995 Prenatal Sex Determination: A New Family Building Strategy. Manushi: A Journal about Women and Society 86:23-29.

Sharma, S., S. Gupta, A. K. Kalla, Sunil K. Khanna, I. P. Singh, F. Vogel
1991 Computer Tomographic Studies and Anthropological Measurements in Patients with Atlanto-Occipital Fusion. Anthropology Anziger 49:325-339.

Kalla, A. K., Sunil K. Khanna, I. P. Singh, S. Sharma, and F. Vogel
1991 Somatoscopic Characteristics and Sensory & Sensible Functions of the Patients of Atlanto-Occipital Fusion: A Rare Congenital Anomaly. Indian Anthropologist 21(1):29-37.

Kalla, A. K., Sunil K. Khanna, I. P. Singh, S. Sharma, and F. Vogel
1989 A Genetic and Anthropological Study of Atlanto-Occipital Fusion. Human Genetics 81:105-112.

Kalla, A. K., Sunil K. Khanna, I. P. Singh, S. Sharma, R. Schnoebel, and F. Vogel
1989 Palmar and Digital Dermatoglyphic Variation in Atlanto-Occipital Fusion: A Rare Congenital Developmental Malformation. Acta Medica Auxologica 21:23 32.

Kalla, A. K., Sunil K. Khanna, I. P. Singh, S. Sharma, R. Schnoebel, and F. Vogel
1987 Anthropological Study of Variation in the Cranio-spinal Joint. In Human Genetics, eds, F. Vogel and K. Sperling, eds., pp.557-568.

Book Reviews

Khanna, Sunil K.
2009 Food and Culture: A Reader (Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik, eds.). Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 48(2):157-159.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2007 Reproductive Health in India: History, Politics, and Controversies (Sarah Hodges, ed.). Journal of Asian Studies, 66(4):1195-1197.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2007 All You Need to Know About Action Research (Jean McNiff & Jack Whitehead). Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research 8(3), Art. 8. (excerpted at http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt3-07-e.htm).

Kedia, Satish and Sunil K. Khanna
2006 Tribal Health and Medicine (A.K. Kalla and P.C. Joshi, eds.). Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 20(2): 268-270.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2004 Understanding Yourself, Understanding HealthCare (Richard Saul Wurman, ed.).

Khanna, Sunil K.
2004 Realized Religion: Research on the Relationship between Religion and Health (Theodore J. Chamberlain and Christopher A. Hall). Journal of the National Medical Association 96(6): 858.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2003 I Speak for the Dead (Joye M. Carter). Journal of the National Medical Association 95 (12): 1228.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2003 Parish Nursing: Stories of Service and Care (Verna B. Carson and Harold G. Koenig). Journal of the National Medical Association 95 (11): 1117-1118.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2001 Climates and Constitutions: Health, Race, Environment and British Imperialism in India, 1600-1850 (Mark Harrison), Contemporary South Asia 10(3):415-416.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2001 Sex Ratio Patterns in the Indian Population: A Fresh Exploration (Satish B. Agnihotri). Contemporary South Asia 10(2): 273-274.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2001 Trans-Himalayan Caravans: Merchant Princes and Peasant Traders in Ladakh (Janet Rizvi). The Journal of Interdisciplinary History XXXII (2): 346-347.

Khanna, Sunil K.
1999 Population, Gender, and Politics: Demographic Change in Rural North India (Roger Jeffery & Patricia Jeffery). Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XXX (2); 378-379.

Training Manuals

Khanna, Sunil K.
2009 Media Manual: Introduction to Physical Anthropology. Wadsworth/Cengage Publishing Company, Belmont, CA.
Khanna, Sunil K.

2005 Cultural Competency in Health Care: Training and Evaluation Module (CD-ROM with Study Guide). Project HER and the Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer Foundation.

Commentaries and Reviews

Khanna, Sunil K.
2011 What is Anthropology? Cengage Learning, California.

Khanna, Sunil K., Nancy Romero-Daza, Sherylyn Briller, and Linda A. Bennett
2009 Promoting Applied Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion: Executive Summary.” Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter 20(1): 40-41. (Excerpted by the Consortium of Practicing and Applied Anthropology Programs;
www.aaanet.org/resources/departments/upload/Applied_Scholarship_Tenure_Promotion.pdf)

Khanna, Sunil K.
2007 A Broken Cradle. India-West, March 2007, San Leandro, California.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2007 Sex-selective abortion issues in India needs a “culturally relevant” approach. The Indian Star, New York (3/17/2007).

Khanna, Sunil K.
2006 Cultural Competency: Recommendations for Studying Up.” Anthropology News 47(4): 3-4.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2005 Thesis/Project: Similarities and Differences. Newsletter, Masters of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, Oregon State University.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2003 The Oregon Health Plan: Health Policy in Crisis. In the Spotlight, OSU Alumni Magazine, Oregon State University, Corvallis.

Khanna, Sunil K.
1997 Dissertations in Nutritional Anthropology. Nutritional Anthropology: Official Newsletter of the Council on Nutritional Anthropology (Formerly CommuNicAtor) 20(2):10-12.

Khanna, Sunil K. and Faith R. Warner
1993 Syranthropy: Journal of the Anthropology Department, Special Issue in Commemoration of the Life and Teachings of Professor Agehananda Bharati.” Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University, New York.

Project Reports

Khanna, Sunil K.
2002 Genetics and Public Health in Oregon: A Summary of Assessment Methods and Findings. Report prepared as member of the Oregon Genetics Plan Advisory Council, Oregon Department of Human Services, Salem, Oregon (106 pages).

Khanna, Sunil K.
2001 Options for Universal Health Coverage in Oregon: A Focus Group Study (Phase II).” Report submitted to the Oregon Health Plan Research (OHPR), Salem, Oregon (43 pages).

Khanna, Sunil K.
2001 Options for Universal Health Coverage in Oregon: A Focus Group Study (Phase I).” Report submitted to Oregon Health Plan Research (OHPR), Salem, Oregon (31 pages).

Khanna, Sunil K.
2000 Governor’s Racial and Ethnic Health Task Force Report.” Report submitted to the Office of the Governor, State of Oregon, Salem, Oregon (211 pages).

Khanna, Sunil K.
2000 Family-Building Strategies in an Urbanizing North Indian Village. Report submitted to Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

Khanna, Sunil K.
1999 Smoking Cessation Intervention Programs in the US: A Qualitative Assessment of the Smoke-Free Families Program. Report submitted to Smoke-Free Families National Program Office, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.

Khanna, Sunil K., Judith Maxey, and Jennifer Sugden
1999 Barriers in Accessing “Atypical” Anti-Psychotic and “Atypical” Anti-Depressant Drugs by Medicaid Ineligible Patients in Three Oregon Counties. Report Submitted to the Office of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Services Division (MHDDSD), Oregon Health Division, Salem, Oregon.

Khanna, Sunil K.
1995 Gender Discrimination and Negative Pregnancy Outcomes in North India. Report submitted to Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

Kalla, A. K. Sunil K. Khanna, S. Sharma, I. P. Singh, and F. Vogel
1988 Anthropogenetic Study of Variation in the Cranio-spinal Joint. Report submitted to Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

Research Project Reviews

Khanna, Sunil K.
2009 Touching Lives, Empowering Communities: Evidence from Pilot Interventions. MAMTA: Health Institute for Mother and Child, New Delhi, India.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2009 Community Participation and Phased Intervention: Creating Sustainable Youth-Friendly Health Initiatives in Three Communities in India. Report submitted to the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), Sweden.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2008 The Role of Panchayati Raj Institution (PRI) in Improving Newborn, Infant, and Maternal Health in India. Report submitted to the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India, New Delhi.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2002 Tennessee Outcomes for Alcohol and Drug Services (TOADS) 2001-2002: Tennessee ADAP-DUI Outcome Evaluation 2001-2002. Occasional Paper # 24. Report submitted to Anthropological Research Center, Department of Anthropology, University of Memphis.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2002 Tennessee Outcomes for Alcohol and Drug Services (TOADS) 2001-2002: Substance Abuse Treatment Effectiveness in Tennessee. Occasional Paper # 23. Report submitted to Anthropological Research Center, Department of Anthropology, University of Memphis.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2002 Tennessee Outcomes for Alcohol and Drug Services (TOADS) 2001-2002: Substance Abuse Treatment Effectiveness in Tennessee.” Occasional Paper # 22. Report submitted to Anthropological Research Center, Department of Anthropology, University of Memphis.

Khanna, Sunil K.
2001 Tennessee Outcomes for Alcohol and Drug Services (TOADS) 2001-2002: Substance Abuse Treatment Effectiveness in Tennessee. Statewide Treatment Outcome Treatment Evaluation. Occasional Paper # 20. Report submitted to Anthropological Research Center, Department of Anthropology, University of Memphis.