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Paul Manning

Professor
Anthropology
Trent University
Canada

Professor Social and Political Sciences
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 Intrest

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)

List of Publications
Introduction: acts of alterity By Paul Manning and Adi M Hastings
Words and things, goods and services: Problems of translation between language and political economy
Staging the state and the hypostasization of violence in the medieval Cornish Drama.
Jewish Ghosts, Knockers, Tommyknockers, and other spirits of capitalism in the Cornish mines.
The Rock does not understand English: Welsh in the Division of labor in Nineteenth-century Gwynedd Slate Quarries
The streets of Bethesda: The slate quarrier and the Welsh language in the Welsh Liberal imagination
Materiality and Cosmology: Old Georgian Churches as Sacred, Sublime, and Secular Objects
Owning and Belonging: A Semiotic Investigation of the Affective Categories of a Bourgeois Society
Love Khevsur Style: The romance of the mountains and mountaineer romance in Georgian ethnography
A Construction-based View of Possessive and Local Case-marking in Middle and Modern Welsh Relative Clauses
Barista rants about stupid customers at Starbucks: What imaginary conversations can teach us about real ones
Introduction: acts of alterity By Paul Manning and Adi M Hastings
Why are the Dolls Laughing? Tbilisi Culture between “High Art” and Socialist Labor.
The exoticism and eroticism of the city: The kinto and his city
THE THEORY OF THE CAF É CENTRAL and the Practice of the Caf é Peripheral: Aspirational and Abject Infrastructures of Sociability on the European Periphery
The Epoch of Magna: Capitalist Brands and Postsocialist Revolutions in Georgia
" Our Beer " : Ethnographic Brands in Postsocialist Georgia By Paul Manning and Ann Uplisashvili
When the Guest becomes the Host: Review of Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of the Soviet Empire
Pixies Progress: How the Pixie became part of the 19th century Fairy Mythology
Response: Monstrous Media and Media Monsters
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