Maxine L. Margolis

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Maxine L. Margolis


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Maxine L. Margolis is an American anthropologist and an inductee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a professor of anthropology at the University of Florida 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, and was one of those responsible for convincing him to leave Columbia University 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 Little Brazil, True to Her Natur
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Goodbye, Brazil: Émigrés fr...

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Little Brazil

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Women in Fundamentalism: Mo...

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True to Her Nature : Changi...

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An Invisible Minority: Braz...

3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions
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Mothers and Such: Views of ...

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The Inferno of Dante

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The Moving Frontier: Social...

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Little Brazil. Imigrantes B...

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