Maxine L. Margolis is an American anthropologist and an inductee of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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. She is Professor Emerita of anthropology at the
University of Florida
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in
Gainesville, and has been with the university since 1970. Margolis holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University. Margolis received the BRASA Lifetime Contribution Award in 2014.
She was a student and then a colleague of
Marvin Harris
Marvin Harris (August 18, 1927 – October 25, 2001) was an American anthropologist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York City. A prolific writer, he was highly influential in the development of cultural materialism and environmental determinis ...
, and was one of those responsible for convincing him to leave
Columbia University
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for the University of Florida in 1980. Margolis's work is strongly informed by Harris's anthropological research strategy, known as
cultural materialism.
Margolis is the author of many books on anthropology, notably ''
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* Little Brazil, Manhattan
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'', ''True to Her Nature: Changing Advice to American Women'', and ''
An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City''.
With Martin F. Murphy she edited ''Science, Materialism, and the Study of Culture'', the most comprehensive collection of writings by anthropologists strongly influenced by cultural materialism to date.
Margolis's research interests include gender, agriculture, Brazil and Brazilian immigrants to the United States. In December 2005 she was cited in a New York Times article Trading Status for a Raise, and appears in the companion piece, a New York Times video report "Brazil in Queens."
Margolis is married to archaeologist
Jerald T. Milanich and the mother of historian
Nara Milanich.
Recent books
* Goodbye Brazil: Émigrés from the Land of Soccer and Samba. Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press (2013)
* Goodbye Brazil: Imigrantes Brasileiros no Mundo. São Paulo, Editora Contexto (2013).
* ''
An Invisible Minority: Brazilian Immigrants in New York City''. Gainesville, FL University Press of Florida (2009)
* ''True to Her Nature: Changing Advice to American Women'' Prospect Heights, IL.: Waveland Press (2000 )
* ''
Little Brazil: An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York City'' Princeton: Princeton University (1994)
* '' Little Brazil: Imigrantes Brasileiros em Nova York'', Portuguese edition of Little Brazil: An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York City. Campinas, São Paulo: Papirus Editora (1994)
* '' Science, Materialism and the Study of Culture: Readings in Cultural Materialism'', co-edited with Martin F. Murphy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida (1995)
* ''An Invisible Minority: Brazilians Immigrants in New York City'' rev.ed, Gainesville: University Press of Florida (2009)
* ''Women in Fundamentalism: Modesty, Marriage and Motherhood'', Rowman & Littlefield (2020)
References
External links
University of Florida page
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American women anthropologists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
University of Florida faculty
Brazilianists