Larissa Adler Lomnitz

Larissa Adler Lomnitz
Born
Larissa Adler Milstein

17 June 1932
Paris, France
Died13 April 2019 (aged 87)
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (B.S. in Social Anthropology)
Universidad Iberoamericana (PH.D. in Social Anthropology)
SpouseCinna Lomnitz (m. 1950)
Children4, including Claudio Lomnitz
Parents
  • Miguel Adler (father)
  • Noemi Lisa Milstein (mother)

Larissa Adler Lomnitz (née Milstein; 17 June 1932 - 13 April 2019)[1] was a French-born Chilean-Mexican social anthropologist, researcher, professor, and academic. After living in France, Colombia, and Israel, she received Chilean nationality by marriage and Mexican nationality by residence.[2]

She conducted research and studies regarding the way in which marginalized classes survive in Latin America. She pioneered the study of social networks and the study of the importance of trust for the economy and politics. Her first study in this regard focused on the exchange of favors in the Chilean middle class. Lomnitz completed her doctoral thesis about the importance of exchanging favors and confidence in the informal economy in Mexico City. She then explored the importance of social networks in very diverse fields: scientific communities, the Mexican upper class, and the teaching profession in Chile, among others. She wrote more than 70 chapters in books, nine books,[3] and various popular articles for magazines.

  1. ^ Douglas S. Massey: "Larissa Adler Lomnitz: Anthropologist who showed how the poor used social networks to survive and the rich to thrive." PNAS. 119 (33) e2212472119, August 2022, doi:10.1073/pnas.2212472119.
  2. ^ UNAM (1992). Nuestros maestros - Premio Universidad Nacional 1985-1997 (in Spanish). Vol. 4. National Autonomous University of Mexico. pp. 246–248. ISBN 978-968-36-5725-1.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference nasonline was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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