Elizabeth Brumfiel

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Elizabeth Brumfiel (b. 1945) is an American archaeologist who teaches at Northwestern University. She is a former president of the American Anthropological Association.

Brumfiel has conducted an archaeological project at the site of Xaltocan in Mexico since 1987. Her publications focus on gender, political economy, and the relationship between these areas of scholarship. She also works to show how archaeology, as an academic discipline, is connected to other fields of anthropology and to other disciplines such as gender studies and political science.