Larissa Adler Lomnitz
Larissa Adler Lomnitz (née Milstein; 17 June 1932 - 13 April 2019) 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.
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| Born | Larissa Adler Milstein 17 June 1932 Paris, France |
| Died | 13 April 2019 (aged 87) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (B.S. in Social Anthropology) Universidad Iberoamericana (PH.D. in Social Anthropology) |
| Spouse | Cinna Lomnitz (m. 1950) |
| Children | 4, including Claudio Lomnitz |
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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, and various popular articles for magazines.