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Maya Mayblin

@mayblin

Social Anthropologist @EdinburghUni, ritual, religion, death, politics, material culture, Catholicism, feminist theory, Brazil, Latin America

Joined March 2012
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Gary Younge@garyyoungeAug 14
"When people talk about the need for Black Excellence I counter with an insistence on Black mediocrity: the right for black people to be as average, flawed, compromised & mistaken as any other group of people. The right, ultimately, to be human." R.I.P. Jason Arday
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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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Lula names staunch Amazon defenders as ministers in Brazil theguardian.com/world/2022/d…
Lula names staunch Amazon defenders as ministers in Brazil

Lula names staunch Amazon defenders as ministers in Brazil

Ministry for Indigenous peoples is created but new government faces huge challenges from Bolsonaro era

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. #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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Why Purgatory is less a holding pattern and more a tribute to love – aeon.co/essays/why-purgatory… via @aeonmag
Why Purgatory is less a holding pattern and more a tribute to love | Aeon Essays

Why Purgatory is less a holding pattern and more a tribute to love | Aeon Essays

Think less of a holding pen for Heaven and more as a flow of love from the living, and the weirdness starts making sense

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Jon Bialecki@jonbialecki7 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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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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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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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…
Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds without End

Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds without End

Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds without End

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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…

Christianity and Ethical Struggle --- Contemporary Discussions in the Anthropology of Religion

The contemporary world witnesses the struggle in articulating ethical life with advancing technology, enduring social institutions, and competing understandings of

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Sobering and difficult news about the French Catholic Church theguardian.com/world/2021/o…
French Catholic church expresses ‘shame’ after report finds 330,000 children were abused

French Catholic church expresses ‘shame’ after report finds 330,000 children were abused

Church asks for forgiveness as it accepts findings of ‘appalling’ abuse by clergy and lay members over 70 years

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Austen Ivereigh@austeni2 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…
The Vatican still has a ‘patriarchal mindset’ — but women are challenging it.

The Vatican still has a ‘patriarchal mindset’ — but women are challenging it.

In this deep dive episode of "Inside the Vatican," host Colleen Dulle examines how things are changing for women in the Vatican.

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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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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
UK local councils failing people who can’t afford a funeral, says new report

UK local councils failing people who can’t afford a funeral, says new report

For those who can’t afford to pay funeral costs, state support is patchy at best and unlawful at worst.

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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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Covid’s cruellest blow? Keeping the dying from their loved ones theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Covid’s cruellest blow? Keeping the dying from their loved ones | Rachel Clarke

Covid’s cruellest blow? Keeping the dying from their loved ones | Rachel Clarke

Too many were isolated when they needed human connection most, says the palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke

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Lucy Selman@Lucy_Selman30 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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Not religious, just more enchanted than ever... #religion #spirituality #secular theguardian.com/commentisfre…
The Guardian view on 'post-Christian' Britain: a spiritual enigma | Editorial

The Guardian view on 'post-Christian' Britain: a spiritual enigma | Editorial

Editorial: The majority of us do not belong to any religion. But for most, atheism is not an option either

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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…
How Scottish Gaelic is helping protect Scotland’s seas

How Scottish Gaelic is helping protect Scotland’s seas

Around 75% of fishermen in the Outer Hebrides speak Gaelic. Their daily use of the language at work helps keep it alive.

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