Paul Manning
Professor
Anthropology
Trent University
Canada
Biography
Professor Paul Manning received his PhD in linguistics from the University of Chicago in 2001. He has taught anthropology at Northern Illinois University, Reed College, and Bard College. His research focuses on linguistic and semiotic anthropology in Europe (Wales) and Eurasia (Georgia). He has done fieldwork on Welsh speaking populations in Wales, Argentina and on Georgian speaking populations in Georgia and Russia.
Research Interest
Linguistic anthropology, anthropology and history, semiotics (the study of signs), cartoons, urban anthropology, anthropology of romance, anthropology of politics, liberalism and neo-liberalism, colonialism, anthropology of technology, nature, mining, landscape, and anthropology of the preternatural (fairies, pixies, monsters, occultism, theosophy)
Publications
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Introduction: acts of alterity By Paul Manning and Adi M Hastings
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Words and things, goods and services: Problems of translation between language and political economy
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Staging the state and the hypostasization of violence in the medieval Cornish Drama.
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Jewish Ghosts, Knockers, Tommyknockers, and other spirits of capitalism in the Cornish mines.
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The Rock does not understand English: Welsh in the Division of labor in Nineteenth-century Gwynedd Slate Quarries
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The streets of Bethesda: The slate quarrier and the Welsh language in the Welsh Liberal imagination
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Materiality and Cosmology: Old Georgian Churches as Sacred, Sublime, and Secular Objects
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Owning and Belonging: A Semiotic Investigation of the Affective Categories of a Bourgeois Society
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Love Khevsur Style: The romance of the mountains and mountaineer romance in Georgian ethnography
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A Construction-based View of Possessive and Local Case-marking in Middle and Modern Welsh Relative Clauses
