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nasceu em Toronto, no Canadá, em 1982. Em 2005 graduou-se em
antropologia pela University of Western Ontario e, em 2007, e concluiu um mestrado
em arqueologia pela Trent University. Atualmente, é doutorando em antropologia
pela Tulane University, em Nova Orleães, EUA. Está conduzindo uma pesquisa sobre
as crenças filosóficas de participantes de Santo Daime na Bélgica e na Europa mais
amplamente. Está particularmente interessado nos domínios da antropologia existencial,
da antropologia da religião, e da antropologia da consciência.
Publicações
In Press
An Anthropology of Third-Wave Mayanism: Emic Rationales behind New Age (Mis)Appropriations of Ancient Maya Calendrics and Symbology. In Identity Crisis: Archaeology and Problems of Social Identity (42nd Annual Chacmool Conference Proceedings [2009]), edited by L. Amundsen, S. Pickering, and G. Oetelaar. University of Calgary, Department of Archaeology.
In Press
co-author with Paul Healy Ancient Maya Mosaic Mirrors: Function, Symbolism, and Meaning. Ancient Mesoamerica.
2010 Towards an Ethnometaphysics of Consciousness: Suggested Adjustments in SAC’s Quest to Reroute the Main(Stream); Special Section: The Future of a Discipline: Considering the ontological/methodological future of the anthropology of consciousness, Part II. Anthropology of Consciousness 21(2): 113-138.
2010 Deciphering Ancient Maya Ethno-Metaphysics: Conventional Icons Signifying the King-as-Conduit Complex. Time and Mind 3(3): 267-290.
2007 M.A. Thesis entitled “Surfaces and the Beyond: The Political, Ideological, and Economic Significance of Ancient Maya Iron-ore Mirrors” published on official website of WAYEB: The European Association of Mayanist http://www.wayeb.org/download/theses/blainey_2007.pdf
2005 Undergraduate Thesis paper entitled “Evidence for Ritual Use of Entheogens in Ancient Mesoamerica and the Implications for the Approach to Religion and Worldview” published on official website of WAYEB: The European Association of Mayanists http://www.wayeb.org/download/theses/blainey_2005.pdf
Críticas de livros
In Press Review of “BEATRIZ CAIUBY LABATE & GUSTAVO PACHECO. Música Brasileira de Ayahuasca. Campinas SP, Brazil: Mercado de Letras, 2009. 120pp. and Opening the Portals of Heaven: Brazilian Ayahuasca Music. Münster, Germany: Lit Verlag, 2010.” Latin American Music Review.
Apresentações
-Botanical Faiths: The Phytoanthropology of Indigenous Ayahuasca-Use in South America. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania December 2009
-Nebulous Unifications and Partitions in the Belgian Santo Daime. Paper presented at the Partitions and Reunifications conference at the University of Cardiff, Wales July 2009
-Correlations between Ayahuasca Use and Cultural Worldview among the Cashinahua (Huni Kuin). Paper presented at the Society of Ethnobiology conference in New Orleans, Louisiana April 2009
-The Metaphysics of Entheogens and Shamanism: A Study in Existential Anthropology. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) conference in Washington, DC November 2007
-The Legal Status of Entheogens: Emphasizing ‘Set’ and ‘Setting’ in Educating a ‘Mystified’ Public. Paper presented at Society for the Anthropology of Religion conference in Phoenix, Arizona April 2007
-Metaphysics of Mystical States of Consciousness: Exploring Quantum Anomalies alongside the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Intoxication. Paper presented presented as poster at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) conference in Portland, Oregon 2006
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Artigos de Autoria Individual
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Marc Blainey. Towards an Ethnometaphysics of Consciousness: Suggested Adjustments in SAC’s Quest to Reroute the Main(Stream).
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