Larissa Adler Lomnitz (née Milstein; 17 June 1932 - 13 April 2019)[1] was a French-born Chilean-Mexican social anthropologist, researcher, professor, and academic.
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.
[8] Lomnitz received a bachelor's degree with Honors in Social Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
[citation needed] In 1967, Lomnitz affiliated with the Center for Mental Health Research at the University of Chile.
As with Oscar Lewis, Lomnitz rejected the relationship between human migration, urbanization, and disorganization proposed by the Chicago environmentalists based on the theories of Richard Adams.