Larissa Lomnitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 99319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larissa Lomnitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Lomnitz |
| SIGNATURE | LOMNITZ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 196 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Family, Networks and Academics
The history of anthropology is a growing field of study within the discipline itself. Our series 'Key Informants on the History of Anthropology' is offered as a contribution to the discussion of how anthropology, as it is understood and practised today, evolved and took shape. In this invited article, Larissa Adler Lomnitz reflects on how a cosmopolitan background aroused an interest in her in questions of social identity. Her studies of social n…
Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile. Julia Paley
Basic, Applied and Technological Research: Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Our purpose in this paper is to offer an historical account of the relationship between basic, applied and technological research, as found in a case study of the Institute of Research in Applied Mathematics and Systems (IIMAS) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). We found that researchers who have dedicated themselves full-time to the development of technology related to computing science have, in their academic careers, faced…
Entre la continuidad y el cambio: El Ritual De La Sucesión Presidencial
Becoming a Scientist in Mexico: The Challenge of Creating a Scientific Community in an Underdeveloped Country
Veterinary medicine and animal husbandry in Mexico: From empiricism to science and technology
Chile's Middle Class: A Struggle for Survival in the Face of Neoliberalism
The Chilean middle class social networks in the urban middle class in the late 1960s a brief history of Chile's education system teachers in Chile in 1988 teachers' lives - five cases
Chile's Middle Class: A Struggle for Survival in the Face of Neoliberalism
A Mexican Elite Family, 1820-1980: Kinship, Class Culture
This book presents the history of the Gomez, an elite family of Mexico that today includes several hundred individuals, plus their spouses and the families of their spouses, all living in Mexico City. Tracing the family from its origins in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico through its rise under the Porfirio Diaz regime and focusing especially on the last three generations, the work shows how the Gomez have evolved a distinctive subculture and an abi…
Informal Exchange Networks in Formal Systems: A Theoretical Model
Studies of the informal economy in the Third World have evolved toward defining the informal sector in relationship to the state. This article analyzes some activities that escape the control of the state, with special attention to centrally planned economies. Informal exchanges include bureaucratic favors ("connections"), clientelism, different forms of corruption, and the "parallel" system of production and marketing. I show that economic laws …
Publication and Referencing Patterns in a Mexican Research Institute
Reference and publication patterns in the Institute of Biomedical Research of the National University of Mexico have changed over a twenty-year period (1959-79), reflecting the emergence of a scientific community. This paper analyzes these changes in terms of the development of a `critical mass' and of increasing international visibility, and participation in invisible colleges. Our findings show that a critical mass of Mexican biomedical researc…
Notable Family Networks in Latin America. Diana Balmori, STUART F. Voss, and Miles WORTMAN
Recruiting Technical Elites: Mexico's Veterinarians
Technical-professional experts in Mexico are recruited and trained principally in the National University of Mexico (UNAM), where they acquire academic preparation for graduate work, organizational and leadership skills, as well as all-important loyalty networks. Survey data from the School of Veterinary Medicine in the UNAM show the recent growth of the profession and its role in the state. Four biographies illustrate the recruitment and trainin…
Horizontal and Vertical Relations and the Social Structure of Urban Mexico
There are two principal approaches to understanding social structure. One approach, exemplified by social class analysis, consists of postulating an ideal model of class positions and then mapping social reality onto this model. The result is a set of structural relationships that explain, or seem to explain, the positions taken by various social groups at different times. This approach is therefore also an interpretation of politics, in the sens…
Formal Organizations
Hierarchy and Peripherality: The Organisation of a Mexican Research Institute
Kinship Structure and the Role of Women in the Urban Upper Class of Mexico
Anthropology and Development in Latin America
The History of a Mexican Urban Family
Mecanismos de articulación entre el sector informal y el sector formal urbano
This article utilizes field data from Mexico City squatter settlements and personal interviews with employers to analyze some aspects of social relations between the informal sector and the formal urban sector, and compares the results with findings of other anthropologists in Mexico and elsewhere to derive a series of theoretical generalizations concerning mechanisms of articulation between the marginal sector and the formal economic and politic…
Reciprocity and Confianza
Networks and Marginality: Life in a Mexican Shantytown
Migrations
Brian M. du Toit and Helen I. Safa, eds. Migration and Urbanization: Models and Adaptive Strategies. The Hague and Paris: Mouton Publishers, 1975. A volume in the World Anthropology Series, Sol Tax, general editor. Distributed in North America by Aldine Publishing Co. Maps, tables, figures, references, biographical notes, index of names, and index of subjects. xii + 305 pp. $15.50. Helen I. Safa and Brian M. du Toit, eds. Migration and Developmen…
Conflict and Mediation in a Latin American University
The evolution of national universities in Latin America is closely related to major political and social changes. The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is no exception. As elsewhere in Latin America, we are witnessing in Mexico the transition from a preindustrial, agricultural society to an urbanized industrialized nation. The deep transformations are reflected in the transformation of the elitist universities of the turn of the cen…
Como sobreviven los marginados
Informal Exchange Networks in Formal Systems: A Theoretical Model
Studies of the informal economy in the Third World have evolved toward defining the informal sector in relationship to the state. This article analyzes some activities that escape the control of the state, with special attention to centrally planned economies. Informal exchanges include bureaucratic favors ("connections"), clientelism, different forms of corruption, and the "parallel" system of production and marketing. I show that economic laws …
Horizontal and Vertical Relations and the Social Structure of Urban Mexico
There are two principal approaches to understanding social structure. One approach, exemplified by social class analysis, consists of postulating an ideal model of class positions and then mapping social reality onto this model. The result is a set of structural relationships that explain, or seem to explain, the positions taken by various social groups at different times. This approach is therefore also an interpretation of politics, in the sens…
Networks and Marginality: Life in a Mexican Shantytown
The History of a Mexican Urban Family
Supervivencia en una barriada en la ciudad de México
Este artigo examina as estratégias de sobrevivência empregadas por moradores de uma barriada na Cidade do México. Lomnitz analisa como as redes sociais, a reciprocidade e a economia informal desempenham um papel crucial na capacidade dos moradores de lidar com a pobreza e a marginalização. O estudo destaca a importância dessas redes como mecanismos de apoio mútuo e segurança econômica em um contexto de recursos limitados e incerteza. A autora arg…
Kinship Structure and the Role of Women in the Urban Upper Class of Mexico
Como sobreviven los marginados
Conflict and Mediation in a Latin American University
The evolution of national universities in Latin America is closely related to major political and social changes. The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is no exception. As elsewhere in Latin America, we are witnessing in Mexico the transition from a preindustrial, agricultural society to an urbanized industrialized nation. The deep transformations are reflected in the transformation of the elitist universities of the turn of the cen…
Hierarchy and Peripherality: The Organisation of a Mexican Research Institute
Mecanismos de articulación entre el sector informal y el sector formal urbano
This article utilizes field data from Mexico City squatter settlements and personal interviews with employers to analyze some aspects of social relations between the informal sector and the formal urban sector, and compares the results with findings of other anthropologists in Mexico and elsewhere to derive a series of theoretical generalizations concerning mechanisms of articulation between the marginal sector and the formal economic and politic…
Family, Networks and Academics
The history of anthropology is a growing field of study within the discipline itself. Our series 'Key Informants on the History of Anthropology' is offered as a contribution to the discussion of how anthropology, as it is understood and practised today, evolved and took shape. In this invited article, Larissa Adler Lomnitz reflects on how a cosmopolitan background aroused an interest in her in questions of social identity. Her studies of social n…
Basic, Applied and Technological Research: Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Our purpose in this paper is to offer an historical account of the relationship between basic, applied and technological research, as found in a case study of the Institute of Research in Applied Mathematics and Systems (IIMAS) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). We found that researchers who have dedicated themselves full-time to the development of technology related to computing science have, in their academic careers, faced…
Entre la continuidad y el cambio: El Ritual De La Sucesión Presidencial
Veterinary medicine and animal husbandry in Mexico: From empiricism to science and technology
Recruiting Technical Elites: Mexico's Veterinarians
Technical-professional experts in Mexico are recruited and trained principally in the National University of Mexico (UNAM), where they acquire academic preparation for graduate work, organizational and leadership skills, as well as all-important loyalty networks. Survey data from the School of Veterinary Medicine in the UNAM show the recent growth of the profession and its role in the state. Four biographies illustrate the recruitment and trainin…
Formal Organizations
Patterns of Alcohol Consumption among the Mapuche
Two great cultural patterns of alcohol consumption have been defined by Mandelbaum. According to this conception, much of Africa and Latin America have basically different drinking habits. Thus, among many African groups, men tend to drink frequently but without intoxication or loss of control; they incline instead toward lengthy states of tipsiness. The Latin American pattern, on the other hand, allows or requires men to drink steadily into a st…
Supervivencia en una barriada en la ciudad de México
Este artigo examina as estratégias de sobrevivência empregadas por moradores de uma barriada na Cidade do México. Lomnitz analisa como as redes sociais, a reciprocidade e a economia informal desempenham um papel crucial na capacidade dos moradores de lidar com a pobreza e a marginalização. O estudo destaca a importância dessas redes como mecanismos de apoio mútuo e segurança econômica em um contexto de recursos limitados e incerteza. A autora arg…
La marginalidad como factor de crecimiento demográfico
En recientes estudios sociodemográficos se ha visto que los patrones de fecundidad son los que determinan, en gran medida, el crecimiento o estancamiento demográfico de las sociedades modernas. La fecundidad es alta en la mayoría de los países subdesarrollados y es relativamente baja en la mayoría de las sociedades industriales desarrolladas.Por otra parte, algunos estudios antropológicos muestran que la fecundidad está relacionada con la organiz…
Como sobreviven los marginados
Reciprocity and Confianza
Networks and Marginality: Life in a Mexican Shantytown
Migrations
Brian M. du Toit and Helen I. Safa, eds. Migration and Urbanization: Models and Adaptive Strategies. The Hague and Paris: Mouton Publishers, 1975. A volume in the World Anthropology Series, Sol Tax, general editor. Distributed in North America by Aldine Publishing Co. Maps, tables, figures, references, biographical notes, index of names, and index of subjects. xii + 305 pp. $15.50. Helen I. Safa and Brian M. du Toit, eds. Migration and Developmen…
Conflict and Mediation in a Latin American University
The evolution of national universities in Latin America is closely related to major political and social changes. The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is no exception. As elsewhere in Latin America, we are witnessing in Mexico the transition from a preindustrial, agricultural society to an urbanized industrialized nation. The deep transformations are reflected in the transformation of the elitist universities of the turn of the cen…
The History of a Mexican Urban Family
Mecanismos de articulación entre el sector informal y el sector formal urbano
This article utilizes field data from Mexico City squatter settlements and personal interviews with employers to analyze some aspects of social relations between the informal sector and the formal urban sector, and compares the results with findings of other anthropologists in Mexico and elsewhere to derive a series of theoretical generalizations concerning mechanisms of articulation between the marginal sector and the formal economic and politic…
Hierarchy and Peripherality: The Organisation of a Mexican Research Institute
Kinship Structure and the Role of Women in the Urban Upper Class of Mexico
Anthropology and Development in Latin America
Horizontal and Vertical Relations and the Social Structure of Urban Mexico
There are two principal approaches to understanding social structure. One approach, exemplified by social class analysis, consists of postulating an ideal model of class positions and then mapping social reality onto this model. The result is a set of structural relationships that explain, or seem to explain, the positions taken by various social groups at different times. This approach is therefore also an interpretation of politics, in the sens…
Formal Organizations
Recruiting Technical Elites: Mexico's Veterinarians
Technical-professional experts in Mexico are recruited and trained principally in the National University of Mexico (UNAM), where they acquire academic preparation for graduate work, organizational and leadership skills, as well as all-important loyalty networks. Survey data from the School of Veterinary Medicine in the UNAM show the recent growth of the profession and its role in the state. Four biographies illustrate the recruitment and trainin…
Notable Family Networks in Latin America. Diana Balmori, STUART F. Voss, and Miles WORTMAN
Publication and Referencing Patterns in a Mexican Research Institute
Reference and publication patterns in the Institute of Biomedical Research of the National University of Mexico have changed over a twenty-year period (1959-79), reflecting the emergence of a scientific community. This paper analyzes these changes in terms of the development of a `critical mass' and of increasing international visibility, and participation in invisible colleges. Our findings show that a critical mass of Mexican biomedical researc…
A Mexican Elite Family, 1820-1980: Kinship, Class Culture
This book presents the history of the Gomez, an elite family of Mexico that today includes several hundred individuals, plus their spouses and the families of their spouses, all living in Mexico City. Tracing the family from its origins in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico through its rise under the Porfirio Diaz regime and focusing especially on the last three generations, the work shows how the Gomez have evolved a distinctive subculture and an abi…
Informal Exchange Networks in Formal Systems: A Theoretical Model
Studies of the informal economy in the Third World have evolved toward defining the informal sector in relationship to the state. This article analyzes some activities that escape the control of the state, with special attention to centrally planned economies. Informal exchanges include bureaucratic favors ("connections"), clientelism, different forms of corruption, and the "parallel" system of production and marketing. I show that economic laws …
Chile's Middle Class: A Struggle for Survival in the Face of Neoliberalism
Chile's Middle Class: A Struggle for Survival in the Face of Neoliberalism
The Chilean middle class social networks in the urban middle class in the late 1960s a brief history of Chile's education system teachers in Chile in 1988 teachers' lives - five cases
Veterinary medicine and animal husbandry in Mexico: From empiricism to science and technology
Becoming a Scientist in Mexico: The Challenge of Creating a Scientific Community in an Underdeveloped Country
Entre la continuidad y el cambio: El Ritual De La Sucesión Presidencial
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Law (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · History (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works)