Elizabeth Brumfiel

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Elizabeth M. Brumfiel (born March 10, 1945 in Chicago as Elizabeth Stern ; † January 1, 2012 in Skokie ) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist ( ancient American ).

Life

Elizabeth Brumfiel graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in anthropology in 1965 and then went to Bolivia for the Peace Corps in 1966/67 . In 1969 she finished her Masters degree from the University of California , and in 1976 she received her PhD from the University of Michigan. From 1977 she worked for more than 25 years as a full professor of anthropology at Albion College and from 2003 at Northwestern University .

Brumfiel headed the archaeological project in Xaltocan , Mexico , from 1967 . She had previously worked with Richard Blanton on Monte Albán in Mexico and was responsible for research in Xico and Huexotla . She paid particular attention to research into gender roles as well as social and socio-economic differences in Aztec culture. Brumfiel was one of the first to study the role of women in Aztec culture through food preparation and textile weaving.

Brumfiel was co-editor of Latin American Antiquity , Ancient Mesoamerica, and from 1995 to 1997 the Annual Review of Anthropology . She was also one of the initiators of the World Council of Anthropological Associations. Between 2000 and 2002 she lectured at Sigma Xi . From 2003 to 2005 she served as president of the American Anthropological Association . In 2008/09 she was the chief curator of the exhibition "The Aztec World" at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago

In 2006 the conservative author David Horowitz included her in a “list of the 101 most dangerous professors” for her commitment to social justice and human rights.

Brumfiel died of cancer in a hospice in 2012. She was married and had a son.

Honors

  • 2007: Eagle Warrior Prize from the Mexican city of Xaltocan
  • Every year Northwestern University presents the Elizabeth M. Brumfiel Award for outstanding student work in the field of archeology

Fonts (selection)

  • Gender, cloth, continuity and change: Fabricating unity in anthropology . In: American Anthropologist , No. 108, pp. 861-877
  • Mesoamerica . In: C. Gosden, B. Cunliffe (Eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Archeology . Oxford University Press
  • with Lisa Overholtzer: Alien bodies, everyday people, and internal spaces: Embodiment, figurines and social discourse in Postclassic Mexico . In: Christina T. Halperin, Katherine A. Faust, Rhonda Taube, Aurore Giguet (eds.): Mesoamerican Figurines . University Press of Florida, 2009, pp. 296-322
  • with John W. Fox: Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World Cambridge University Press, 2003
  • La Producción Local y el Poder en el Xaltocan Posclásico - Production and Power at Postclassic Xaltocan Instituto Nacional De Antropologia e Historía, 2005
  • Opting In and Opting Out: Tula, Cholula, and Xaltocan . In: RE Blanton, MH Parsons (Ed.): Settlement and Subsistence in Early Civilizations: Essays reflecting the contributions of Jeffrey R. Parsons , Cotsen Institute of Archeology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2005, pp. 63-88
  • Materiality, Feasts, and Figured Worlds in Aztec Mexico . In: E. DeMarrais, C. Gosden, Collin Renfrew (eds.): Rethinking Materiality . McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge 2005, pp. 225-237
  • Methods in Feminist and Gender Archeology: A Feeling for Difference — and Likeness . In: SM Nelson (Ed.): The Handbook of Gender in Archeology . Altamira, Walnut Creek 2006, pp. 31-58
  • with Timothy K. Earle: Specialization, Exchange and Complex Societies . Cambridge University Press, 2008
  • with Gary M. Feinma: The Aztec World . Abrams, New York 2008
  • with Cynthia Robin: Gender, Households, and Society: Unraveling the Threads of the Past and the Present . Wiley-Blackwell, New York 2010

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elizabeth Henley: From Commoners to Kings , Northwestern Magazine, Northwestern University , 2009
  2. ^ David Horowitz: The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America . Regnery Publishing, Washington DC 2006, o.S. ( online at Google Books )
  3. ↑ Elizabeth Brumfiel dies at 66; feminist archaeologist , Los Angeles Times, Jan. 17, 2012
  4. ↑ Senior Theses and Honors , Northwestern University, accessed February 10, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Brumfiel, Elizabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stern, Elizabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American anthropologist and archaeologist (ancient American scholar)
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 2012
Place of death Skokie