Section: Staff Profiles

Maya Mayblin

Name
Dr Maya Mayblin
Title
British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow
Organisation
Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
6.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
E-Mail
URL
http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/staff/mayblin_maya
Maya Mayblin

Research Interests

  • Ritual, religion, morality
  • Christianity
  • The politics and economics of sacrifice/ sacrificial discourse
  • Mental health, suffering, medical anthropology
  • Children, childhood, child labour
  • Sex, gender, and personhood
  • Northeast Brazil and Latin America

PhD Supervision

I welcome enquiries from students interested in any of my research fields.

Biographical statement

Maya Mayblin works on politics, personhood, gender, morality, and the history and practice of Catholicism in Brazil. She earned her PhD in anthropology at the London School of Economics in 2005, and worked as an applied medical anthropologist at King's College, London before joining Social Anthropology at Edinburgh. She currently holds a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship for a new research project, exploring the salience of self-sacrifice as a model for political action in Northeast Brazil. Approaching sacrifice as the object of competing theological and gendered discourses and as a theory of personhood, she is charting its emergence as a key idiom in local discourses about the nature of power.

Books

2010. Gender, Catholicism, and Morality in Brazil: Virtuous Husbands, Powerful Wives New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Articles

 Forthcoming. The Madness of Mothers: agape love and the maternal myth in Northeast Brazil. American Anthropologist

2011. Death By Marriage: power, pride and morality in Northeast Brazil. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 17: 135-153

2010. Learning Courage: Child Labour as Moral Practice in Northeast Brazil. Ethnos, 75(1): 23-48.

2008. Ethnicity and Registration as a Donor: the significance of identity and belonging. Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 66, No.1: 147-158 (co-authored with M. Morgan and R. Jones)

2006. Attitudes Towards Kidney Donation and Registering as a Donor Among Ethnic Groups in the UK. Journal of Public Health, Vol.28, No.3: 226-234 (co-authored with M. Morgan and R. Jones)

This page was published on 22 September 2011


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