Social Anthropologist @EdinburghUni, ritual, religion, death, politics, material culture, Catholicism, feminist theory, Brazil, Latin America
Joined March 2012
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Maya Mayblin retweeted
9 Jan 2023
Brazil: Massive March in defense of democracy and in rejection of fascism in Sao Paulo today. Video: Midia Ninja #Brazil #Lula #LulaPresidente #Bolsonaro
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30 Dec 2022
Lula names staunch Amazon defenders as ministers in Brazil theguardian.com/world/2022/d…
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Maya Mayblin retweeted
19 Aug 2022
. #PublicHealthAct #Funerals Conference 👉🏽 8th Sep 2022 | 9:30am – 3:30pm. Park Plaza Victoria, London.
Speakers from; University of Nottingham, University of Edinburgh, @NaziaRamsdens & Finders International @PHAfunerals
Register today 👉🏽 ow.ly/c7oX50KjXXG
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29 Jul 2022
Why Purgatory is less a holding pattern and more a tribute to love – aeon.co/essays/why-purgatory… via @aeonmag
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Maya Mayblin retweeted
7 Apr 2022
Out today, @Eric_Hoenes, @roscoe_loustau, & Kirstin Norget's excellent edited #anthropology volume, _Mediating Catholicism_, featuring essays by, among others, @ElayneOliphant, @hillarykaell, & Tom Csordas, to name just a few!
bloomsbury.com/us/mediating-…
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Maya Mayblin retweeted
15 Mar 2022
This book is eager to be judged by its cover ⬇️ People Get Ready coming ✨this Fall✨ to a bookstore or @FordhamPress booth near you!
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8 Mar 2022
Looking forward to presenting early findings from the #howwemourproject with my collaborator, the artist photographer Miranda Hutton, tomorrow at The School of Creative Arts and Industries at Canterbury Christ Church University. @cccuphoto @MAD_CCCU @CanterburyCCUni @DurhamCDALS
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Maya Mayblin retweeted
20 Jan 2022
Excited/terrified to see that Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds Without End has a launch date of March 1st. Get it on Amazon, or at a real bookstore and ever so slightly retard Bezo's hostile takeover of the solar system. amazon.com/Machines-Making-G…
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Maya Mayblin retweeted
15 Jan 2022
Very much anticipating participating in this upcoming event sponsored by @anthsocsta! The subject is something very dear to me, and I’ll be joined by anthropologists I really admire and look up to: Joel Robbins, @robotforaday, & @mayblin #anthropology events.st-andrews.ac.uk/even…
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6 Oct 2021
Sobering and difficult news about the French Catholic Church theguardian.com/world/2021/o…
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Maya Mayblin retweeted
2 Oct 2021
This @InsdeVaticanPod by @ColleenDulle on impact of growing presence of women in Vatican leadership is really worth a listen: digs deep and avoids all the usual stereotypes and misunderstandings. Plus three great interviews. americamagazine.org/faith/20…
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Maya Mayblin retweeted
6 Aug 2021
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT📢
The Public Health Act Funerals E-Conference 2021
An excellent panel with a wealth of experience, to aid those working with #PHAFunerals.
@InstituteCCM @QSA @mayblin @findersprobate
Read more & register for our FREE event below... bit.ly/phafunerals-2021
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Maya Mayblin retweeted
22 Jul 2021
UK local councils failing people who can’t afford a funeral, says new report - new in @ConversationUK article from @cendeathsociety's Dr Kate Woodthorpe theconversation.com/uk-local… @bathsps @UniofBath
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Maya Mayblin retweeted
WATCH: The recording is now available for the Munro Lecture with Robin D G Kelley 📣
🎙️Genealogies of #AmericanFascism
With Professor Kelley, @UCLA, author and activist for black lives and human justice.
➡️ edin.ac/3eaLBy7
@AnthroEdinburgh @mayblin @news4anthros
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10 May 2021
Covid’s cruellest blow? Keeping the dying from their loved ones theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Maya Mayblin retweeted
30 Mar 2021
WE NEED YOUR HELP! As part of our @UKRI_News @ESRC study on bereavement during #COVID19 we are studying the impact and response of bereavement services.
So far we have had responses from 73 services. We really need more for maximum policy impact - please help spread the word.
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29 Mar 2021
Not religious, just more enchanted than ever...
#religion #spirituality #secular theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Maya Mayblin retweeted
5 Mar 2021
It was a pleasure to co-write this article with Magnus Course at @AnthroEdinburgh - on the importance of fishing to Gaelic in the Outer Hebrides, and our new film @iorramfilm in the @ConversationUK. @UniofNewcastle
theconversation.com/how-scot…
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21 Feb 2021
Happy to announce the launch of a new scholarship in memory of my late step-mother the novelist Andrea Levy @uoessps @UoEREN @RaceEd @acss.scot @EU_ACS @AnthroEdinburgh @EdinUniCAHSSres ed.ac.uk/student-funding/und…
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