Maxine L. Margolis is an American anthropologist and an inductee of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, a ...

. She is a professor of anthropology at the

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...

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 determinism. ...

, and was one of those responsible for convincing him to leave

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

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 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 archeologist

Jerald T. Milanich Jerald T. Milanich is an American anthropologist and archaeologist, specializing in Native American culture in Florida. He is Curator Emeritus of Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida in Gainesville ...

and the mother of historian

Nara Milanich Nara B. Milanich is Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University, specializing in Latin America; and the comparative histories of family, childhood, gender, reproduction, and social inequality. Her most recent book is ''Patern ...

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)

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External links

University of Florida page

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