Larissa Adler Lomnitz: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|French-born Chilean-Mexican social anthropologist (1932–2019)}}
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| birth_datebirth_name = JuneLarissa 17,Adler 1932Milstein

| death_date = April 13, April 2019 (aged 8687)

'''Larissa Adler Lomnitz''' (June{{nee}} Milstein; 17, June 1932 - April 13, April 2019)<ref>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]].</ref> was a French-born Chilean-Mexican [[social anthropology|social anthropologist]], researcher, professor, and academic. After living in France, Colombia, and Israel, she received Chilean nationality by marriage and Mexican nationality by residence.<ref name="1UNAM">{{cite book|author=UNAM|title=Nuestros maestros - Premio Universidad Nacional 1985-1997|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o-8x7eLCO_4C&pg=PA246|volume=4|year=1992|publisher=National Autonomous University of Mexico|language=es|isbn=978-968-36-5725-1|pages=246–248}}</ref> She conducted research and studies regarding the way in which marginalized classes survive in [[Latin America]]. She pioneered the study of [[social network]]s 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,<ref name="nasonline" /> and various popular articles for magazines.

Larissa Adler Milstein was born in [[Paris]], France, in 1932, to Jewish-Romanian parents.<ref name="columbia">{{cite web |title=Presentation of Claudio Lomnitz’sLomnitz's book, “Nuestra"Nuestra América”América" |url=http://laic.columbia.edu/blog/presentation-claudio-lomnitzs-book-nuestra-america/ |website=laic.columbia.edu |publisher=Columbia University |accessdate=11 January 2020}}</ref> Her father was the anthropologist, Miguel Adler, who trained with [[Paul Rivet]].<ref name="Lomnitz2019">{{cite book|last=Lomnitz|first=Claudio|title=Nuestra América: Utopía y persistencia de una familia judía|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MnyGDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA145|date=10 January 2019|publisher=FCE - Fondo de Cultura Económica|language=French|isbn=978-607-16-6054-1|pages=145–}}</ref> Her mother was Noemi Lisa Milstein de Adler (1910-1976).<ref name="LomnitzPérezLizaur1987">{{cite book|last1=Lomnitz|first1=Larissa Adler|last2=Pérez-Lizaur|first2=Marisol|title=A Mexican Elite Family, 1820-1980: Kinship, Class, and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m1nfEt1eBHoC&pg=PR5|year=1987|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=0-691-02284-4|pages=5–}}</ref>

Shortly after Lomnitz was born, her family moved to live in Colombia. In 1948, when the State of Israel was formed, her family joined the [[Kibbutz]] movement. In 1950, she married the Chilean [[geophysics|geophysicist]], [[Cinna Lomnitz]], with whom she lived in Chile and the United States.<ref name="2unam2007">{{cite web |title=LARISSA ADLER LOMNITZ |url=http://www.100.unam.mx/images/stories/universitarios/dhc/PDF/adler-milstein-larissa.pdf |website=100.unam.mx |accessdate=11 January 2020 |format=pdf |date=2007}}</ref> Their children were Jorge (1954-1993), [[Claudio Lomnitz|Claudio]], Alberto, and Tania.<ref name="Lomnitz1998">{{cite book|last=Lomnitz|first=Larissa Adler de|title=Cómo sobreviven los marginados|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6KS5e28diJ8C&pg=PA13|year=1998|publisher=Siglo XXI|isbn=968-23-1565-4|pages=13–}}</ref>

Lomnitz received a bachelor's degree with Honors in Social Anthropology at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. In 1974, she earned a doctorate in the same specialty at the [[Universidad Iberoamericana]] (UIA) of [[Mexico City]].{{cn|date=February 2024}}

Lomnitz was a member of several societies and academies, including the Mexican Society of Anthropology, the [[Mexican Academy of Sciences]], the Society of Urban Anthropology and Economics, The College of Ethnologists and Anthropologists, and the Javier Barros Sierra Foundation. She served as president of the Society for Latin American Anthropology, and was the director of the War and Peace Studies Commission of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.<ref name="1UNAM" />

She was a member of the Scientific Committee of the [[UNESCO]] Forum on Higher Education Research and Knowledge. She was an emeritus researcher for the National System of Researchers and a member of the Science Advisory Council of the Presidency of the Republic.<ref name="4ccciencias">{{cite web |title=Consejo Consultivo de Ciencias (CCC) |url=http://www.ccciencias.mx/es/ |website=www.ccciencias.mx |accessdate=11 January 2020}}</ref>

In 2010, she was elected a member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref name="5cimacnoticias">{{cite web |title=Ingresará Larissa Adler a la academia de las Artes y la Ciencia » cimacnoticias.com.mx |url=https://cimacnoticias.com.mx/noticia/ingresara-larissa-adler-a-la-academia-de-las-artes-y-la-ciencia/ |website=cimacnoticias.com.mx |accessdate=11 January 2020 |language=es-MX |date=13 September 2010}}</ref>

Guillermo de la Peña Topete published Lomnitz's biography, ''Larissa Adler Lomnitz: Antropóloga latinoamericana'', in 2004.<ref name="Topete2004">{{cite book|last=Topete|first=Guillermo de la Peña|title=Larissa Adler Lomnitz: Antropóloga latinoamericana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oFymDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1973|date=1 January 2004|publisher=Colegio de Etnólogos y Antropólogos Sociales, A.C. (CEAS)|pages=1973–|id=GGKEY:Z46Z8J6G6RB}}</ref> She died in Mexico City, Mexico, Aprilon 13, April 2019, aged 87.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Massey |first=Douglas S. |date=2022-08-16 |title=Larissa Adler Lomnitz: Anthropologist who showed how the poor used social networks to survive and the rich to thrive |url=https://pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2212472119 |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=119 |issue=33 |doi=10.1073/pnas.2212472119 |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=9388125 |pmid=35951649}}</ref>

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