Elizabeth M Brumfiel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 82563 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Elizabeth M Brumfiel |
| PRENOMES | Elizabeth M |
| SOBRENOME | Brumfiel |
| ASSINATURA | BRUMFIEL E M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Albion College |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1285 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
The Archaeology of Gender in Mesoamerica
This chapter contains section titles: Gender Complementarity: A Model for Gender Relations in Mesoamerica? Gender Complementarity in Production: A Dichotomous Division of Labor? Socialization to Binary Gender Roles? Gender Complementarity in Social Organization: Parallel Structures? Gender Complementarity and Gender Equality? Gender Ideology: Dichotomous Sex or Gender Ambiguity in Late Prehispanic Mesoamerica?
Class and Ethnicity in Ancient Mesoamerica
This article discusses notions of class and ethnicity in ancient Mesoamerica. Class differences in Mesoamerica were papered over by the inclusion of individuals of varying social statuses within corporate groups that constituted the basic building blocks of native society. Lockhart (1992) describes these groups as “a series of relatively equal, relatively separate and self-contained constituent parts of the whole.” Subgroups included both the nob…
Technologies of Time
This article explores how the 260-day divinatory calendar changed over the course of Mesoamerican history. I begin with a description of the day-count in an ethnographic context, twentieth-century highland Guatemala. I then examine the day-count as recorded in sixteenth-century historical documents from central Mexico. Ceramic motifs on Early-Middle Postclassic period pottery from Xaltocan, Mexico, guide an examination of the day-count in the ele…
On Nature and the Human
A major contribution of anthropological work has been to challenge a unitary theory of the human. In thisAmerican Anthropologistvital topics forum, a range of prominent anthropologists contribute to this challenge and provide musings on the human. The essays in this forum reflect diversity and unity of anthropological thought on human nature. Some note humans' connection to other primates, and others emphasize our distinction from ancestral patte…
Bitumen, Blades, and Beads
Specialization, Exchange and Complex Societies (New Directions in Archaeology)
Gender, Households, and Society
A critical strength of the discipline of archaeology is that its access to the material record of human history extends well beyond the written record and includes societies and cultures unaffected by Western colonialism and capitalist penetration. Bringing to light the social relations of earlier time periods, archaeology plays a critical role in documenting the full range of human variation, a role that cannot be filled by ethnography, history,…
Gender and Chinese Archaeology (review)
Reviewed by: Gender and Chinese Archaeology Elizabeth M. Brumfiel Gender and Chinese Archaeology. Katheryn M. Linduff and Yan Sun, eds. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2004. 392 pp., tables, figures, index. US$39.95 paper, US$80.00 hardcover. ISBN 0759104093 (paper), 0759104085 (hardcover). Gender and Chinese Archaeology presents an introduction and 11 original studies that draw upon already published data. The authors are professors and gradua…
Hilos de continuidad y cambio. Tejiendo unidad en antropología
En este artículo comparo el proceso de tejido en telares de cintura de tres contextos culturales: los Maya, los antiguos aztecas y la Mesoamérica del siglo XX. Aunque existen evidentes continuidades, también hay importantes diferencias en sus contextos históricos. En el Maya Clásico el tejido marcó la clase social, el género entre los Azteca de México y el origen étnico en la Mesoamérica del siglo XX. El análisis comparativo de estos casos histór…
Cloth, Gender, Continuity, and Change
In this article, I compare backstrap-loom weaving in three cultural contexts: the ancient Maya, the ancient Aztecs, and 20th-century Mesoamerica. Although continuities are present, important differences exist in the ways that weaving was situated historically. Among the Classic Maya, weaving defined class; in Aztec Mexico, weaving defined gender; and in 20th-century Mesoamerica, weaving defined ethnicity. A comparison of these cases suggests that…
Cloth, Gender, Continuity and Change
Archaeology and Its Publics
Ungendering Civilization . K. Anne Pyburn
Gender Archaeology
Gender Archaeology. Marie Louise Stig Sørensen. Oxford: Polity, 2000. 236 pp
It's A Material World
History is of critical importance for anthropology because, in human affairs, the present is intimately linked to the past. Archaeology is important to the study of history because the material remains of the past supplement and interrogate historical documents. Collaboration between cultural anthropologists and archaeologists will produce a broader knowledge of past worlds and how those worlds have been constructed in historical texts, both past…
Neutrons, Markets, Cities, and Empires
States and Civilizations, Archaeology of
Reading the Body
American Anthropological Association
Huitzilopochtli's Conquest
This article was presented as the third David Clarke Memorial Lecture at Peterhouse College, Cambridge University, 1997. It examines the role of religious ideology in the Aztec state. Ideology is often regarded as a means of easing tension between a dominant and a subordinate group. Ideology, however, might also serve as a mechanism for achieving unity within the dominant group so that it can control subordinates through direct coercion. State-sp…
The Multiple Identities of Aztec Craft Specialists
This paper argues that because Atec specialists worked in a variety of institutional settings and produced a range of goods with different symbolic implications, they shared no single social identity. These factors produced almost a continuous range of variation in the social identities of specialists. For both male and female specialists, the concentration of production was the most important determinant of specialist identity because it determi…
Time at the Millennium, 1999 Meeting Theme
Teotihuacan
Aztec Imperial Strategies
Anthropologists Dig Collaboration
Specialization, Exchange and Complex Societies (New Directions in Archaeology)
Distinguished Lecture in Archeology
This article was presented as the third annual Distinguished Lecture in Archeology at the 90th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 22, 1991, in Chicago, Illinois
Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World
Factionalism is an important force of social transformation, and this volume examines how factional competition in the kinship and political structures in ancient New World societies led to the development of chiefdoms, states and empires. The case studies, from a range of New World societies, represent all levels of non-egalitarian societies and a wide variety of ecological settings in the New World. They document the effects of factionalism on …
Specialization, Market Exchange, and the Aztec State
Archaeological data from Huexotla, an Aztec-period site in the Valley of Mexico, are used to test the proposition that Mexican states arose and expanded to facilitate specialization and market exchange. By and large, this proposition is not supported by the Huexotla data. During Early Aztec times, the Valley of Mexico was divided into a number of small, autonomous city-states. The Huexotla data suggest that the local economies of these city-state…
Processual Archaeology and the Radical Critique [and Comments and Reply]
Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Southern Valley of Mexico
Aztec State Making
It has become increasingly difficult to account for state formation solely in terms of ecological variables. It is suggested that consideration of prestate political structure and the interplay of ecological variables and political dynamics (political ecology) would enhance our understanding of why and how states emerge. The Aztecs provide a case for examination. [Aztecs, ecology, political competition, state origins
Engendering Tomb 7 at Monte Alban
Cloth, Gender, Continuity, and Change
In this article, I compare backstrap-loom weaving in three cultural contexts: the ancient Maya, the ancient Aztecs, and 20th-century Mesoamerica. Although continuities are present, important differences exist in the ways that weaving was situated historically. Among the Classic Maya, weaving defined class; in Aztec Mexico, weaving defined gender; and in 20th-century Mesoamerica, weaving defined ethnicity. A comparison of these cases suggests that…
Developmental Implications of Earlier Dates for Early Aztec in the Basin of Mexico
Archaeologists working in the Basin of Mexico have long accepted a chronology in which sequential ceramic phases (Metepec, Coyotlatelco, Mazapan, Aztec I, and Aztec II) define the period between the last stages of Classic Teotihuacan and the immediate antecedents of Late Postclassic Tenochtitlan. The absolute chronology of these phases has remained tentative, and there have been hints of possible temporal overlap between some of them. A series of…
The Quality of Tribute Cloth
This paper continues the discussion of objectivity, subjectivity, and the place of evidence in archaeological argument begun by Wylie (1992a), Little (1994), and Fotiadis (1994). First, it describes my expectations concerning Indian women's resistance to tribute cloth extraction in Aztec and colonial Mexico. Then, it explains how I tested my expectations against several bodies of archaeological data. Finally, it analyzes how I did and did not alt…
Consumption and Politics at Aztec Huexotla
It's A Material World
History is of critical importance for anthropology because, in human affairs, the present is intimately linked to the past. Archaeology is important to the study of history because the material remains of the past supplement and interrogate historical documents. Collaboration between cultural anthropologists and archaeologists will produce a broader knowledge of past worlds and how those worlds have been constructed in historical texts, both past…
Huitzilopochtli's Conquest
This article was presented as the third David Clarke Memorial Lecture at Peterhouse College, Cambridge University, 1997. It examines the role of religious ideology in the Aztec state. Ideology is often regarded as a means of easing tension between a dominant and a subordinate group. Ideology, however, might also serve as a mechanism for achieving unity within the dominant group so that it can control subordinates through direct coercion. State-sp…
Gender, Households, and Society
A critical strength of the discipline of archaeology is that its access to the material record of human history extends well beyond the written record and includes societies and cultures unaffected by Western colonialism and capitalist penetration. Bringing to light the social relations of earlier time periods, archaeology plays a critical role in documenting the full range of human variation, a role that cannot be filled by ethnography, history,…
The Multiple Identities of Aztec Craft Specialists
This paper argues that because Atec specialists worked in a variety of institutional settings and produced a range of goods with different symbolic implications, they shared no single social identity. These factors produced almost a continuous range of variation in the social identities of specialists. For both male and female specialists, the concentration of production was the most important determinant of specialist identity because it determi…
Tribute Cloth Production and Compliance in Aztec and Colonial Mexico
Technologies of Time
This article explores how the 260-day divinatory calendar changed over the course of Mesoamerican history. I begin with a description of the day-count in an ethnographic context, twentieth-century highland Guatemala. I then examine the day-count as recorded in sixteenth-century historical documents from central Mexico. Ceramic motifs on Early-Middle Postclassic period pottery from Xaltocan, Mexico, guide an examination of the day-count in the ele…
Heterarchy and the Analysis of Complex Societies
On Nature and the Human
A major contribution of anthropological work has been to challenge a unitary theory of the human. In thisAmerican Anthropologistvital topics forum, a range of prominent anthropologists contribute to this challenge and provide musings on the human. The essays in this forum reflect diversity and unity of anthropological thought on human nature. Some note humans' connection to other primates, and others emphasize our distinction from ancestral patte…
Bitumen, Blades, and Beads
Craft and the Kingly Ideal
Aztec Warfare
Law and Politics in Aztec Texcoco
Hilos de continuidad y cambio. Tejiendo unidad en antropología
En este artículo comparo el proceso de tejido en telares de cintura de tres contextos culturales: los Maya, los antiguos aztecas y la Mesoamérica del siglo XX. Aunque existen evidentes continuidades, también hay importantes diferencias en sus contextos históricos. En el Maya Clásico el tejido marcó la clase social, el género entre los Azteca de México y el origen étnico en la Mesoamérica del siglo XX. El análisis comparativo de estos casos histór…
Archaeological Research 2
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Specialization, Market Exchange, and the Aztec State
Archaeological data from Huexotla, an Aztec-period site in the Valley of Mexico, are used to test the proposition that Mexican states arose and expanded to facilitate specialization and market exchange. By and large, this proposition is not supported by the Huexotla data. During Early Aztec times, the Valley of Mexico was divided into a number of small, autonomous city-states. The Huexotla data suggest that the local economies of these city-state…
Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Southern Valley of Mexico
Aztec State Making
It has become increasingly difficult to account for state formation solely in terms of ecological variables. It is suggested that consideration of prestate political structure and the interplay of ecological variables and political dynamics (political ecology) would enhance our understanding of why and how states emerge. The Aztecs provide a case for examination. [Aztecs, ecology, political competition, state origins
Law and Politics in Aztec Texcoco
Processual Archaeology and the Radical Critique [and Comments and Reply]
The Jade Steps
Consumption and Politics at Aztec Huexotla
Specialization, Exchange and Complex Societies
1. Specialisation, exchange, and complex societies: an introduction Elizabeth M. Brumfiel and Timothy K. Earle 2. Salt, chert, and shell: Mississippian exchange and economy Jon Muller 3. Unequal development in Copper Age Iberia Antonio Gilman 4. From stone to bronze: the evolution of social complexity in Northern Europe, 2300-1200 BC Kristian Kristiansen 5. Power and moral order in precolonial West-Central Africa Michael Rowlands 6. Specialisatio…
Archeology
Aztec Religion and Warfare
iard
Aztec Warfare
Archeology
The Aztec Kings
Distinguished Lecture in Archeology
This article was presented as the third annual Distinguished Lecture in Archeology at the 90th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 22, 1991, in Chicago, Illinois
Ideology and Pre-Columbian Civilizations . Arthur A. Demarest , Geoffrey W. Conrad
War in the Tribal Zone
War in the Tribal Zone
War in the Tribal Zone, the 1991 anthropology of war classic, is back in print with a new Preface by the editors. Their timely and insightful essay examines the occurrence of ethnic conflict and violence in the decade since the idea of the 'tribal zone' originally was formulated. Finding the book's analysis tragically prophetic in identifying the key dynamics that have produced the kinds of conflicts recently witnessed globally-as in Bosnia, Koso…
Domestic Ceramic Production and Spatial Organization
Ethnic groups and political development in ancient Mexico
Ethnicity can be defined as social identification based upon the presumption of shared history and common cultural inheritance. Such identities play a prominent role in political struggle in the modern world. Whether the object of struggle is securing resources in competition with other ethnic groups or resisting the dominance of an encroaching state, ethnic identity provides a powerful ideology for political mobilization. The ethnic groups engag…
Factional competition and political development in the New World
This volume calls attention to the importance of factional competition as a force of social transformation. It argues that factional competition is implicated in developments as diverse as the spread of ceramic technology and maize agriculture, the origins of permanently instituted leadership offices, the expansion and collapse of states, and the European domination of indigenous New World peoples. Although this volume focuses upon the New World,…
Paradigm gained ‐ paradigm lost? 150 years of Norwegian Bronze age research
Magdalena Midgley: The First Farmers of the North European Plain. Edinburgh University Press, 1992. XVI + 550 pp. 132 figs. ISBN 0 7486 0348 4. Julian Thomas: Rethinking the Neolithic. (New Studies in Archaeology). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991. xvi + 212 pp. 60 figures. ISBN 0–521–40377–4 (hardback). Stuart J. Fiedel: Prehistory of the Americas. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992. 400pp. ISBN 0–521–41532–2—ISBN 0–521–42544…
Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World
Factionalism is an important force of social transformation, and this volume examines how factional competition in the kinship and political structures in ancient New World societies led to the development of chiefdoms, states and empires. The case studies, from a range of New World societies, represent all levels of non-egalitarian societies and a wide variety of ecological settings in the New World. They document the effects of factionalism on …
Engendering Tomb 7 at Monte Alban
Heterarchy and the Analysis of Complex Societies
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