Philip Grant
@philipgrant.bsky.social
Anthropologist, historian, translator.
See: Javad Tabatabai, Ibn Khaldun & the Social Sciences.
Rebels & Rulers in the Early Islamicate World ed. H. Hagemann & A. Grant.
Editorial board, Encyclopædia Iranica. Board member, The Markaz Review.
See: Javad Tabatabai, Ibn Khaldun & the Social Sciences.
Rebels & Rulers in the Early Islamicate World ed. H. Hagemann & A. Grant.
Editorial board, Encyclopædia Iranica. Board member, The Markaz Review.
Great, I only accept drafts with clean footnotes of course:)
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Great, I only accept drafts with clean footnotes of course:)
That would be wonderful!
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
That would be wonderful!
Is it online too this year? Because yes, but...
November 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Is it online too this year? Because yes, but...
Quite a narrow category, but thank you very much for the citation!
I now feel guilty I haven't posted much more on it. After all, sobriquets have to be earned!
I now feel guilty I haven't posted much more on it. After all, sobriquets have to be earned!
November 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Quite a narrow category, but thank you very much for the citation!
I now feel guilty I haven't posted much more on it. After all, sobriquets have to be earned!
I now feel guilty I haven't posted much more on it. After all, sobriquets have to be earned!
Brian, you are an excellent source of book recommendations.
November 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Brian, you are an excellent source of book recommendations.
How extraordinary (not in a good way). I must say, one thing I have appreciated about the US ever since becoming an anthropologist is how many college-educated people have know something about anthropology as they once took a class & usually enjoyed it. & yes, anthro majors/minors are v. employable!
October 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
How extraordinary (not in a good way). I must say, one thing I have appreciated about the US ever since becoming an anthropologist is how many college-educated people have know something about anthropology as they once took a class & usually enjoyed it. & yes, anthro majors/minors are v. employable!
So the Germanic connection might well be with that Lombardic 'pizzo' then, rather than with High German.
September 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
So the Germanic connection might well be with that Lombardic 'pizzo' then, rather than with High German.
Fascinating. I remember reading a few years back that pizza was actually an Italianization of German ein bisschen, i.e. a 'little (piece) of (bread)'. I don't remember the details, but have a vague memory of an argument about Germans crossing the Alps and giving Italians the concept. Unlikely...
September 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Fascinating. I remember reading a few years back that pizza was actually an Italianization of German ein bisschen, i.e. a 'little (piece) of (bread)'. I don't remember the details, but have a vague memory of an argument about Germans crossing the Alps and giving Italians the concept. Unlikely...
J'ai pas trouvé exactement ce que je cherchais, mais je crois que la capacité de beaucoup des primates et surtout les grands singes à digérer l'alcool est bien attesté et que ses fondements génétiques sont assez bien compris.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Genetic evidence of widespread variation in ethanol metabolism among mammals: revisiting the ‘myth' of natural intoxication
Humans have a long evolutionary relationship with ethanol, pre-dating anthropogenic sources, and possess unusually efficient ethanol metabolism, through a mutation that evolved in our last common ance...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
September 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
J'ai pas trouvé exactement ce que je cherchais, mais je crois que la capacité de beaucoup des primates et surtout les grands singes à digérer l'alcool est bien attesté et que ses fondements génétiques sont assez bien compris.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Je crois qu'en règle générale, si on trouve un trait commun à la fois à H. sapiens et aux chimpanzees ou aux bonobos, il s'agit d'un trait ancestral. Moi en fait j'ai appris que les gorilles métabolisent l'alcool d'un paléoanthropologue qui intervenait sur France Cu... Je me souviens pas de son nom.
September 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Je crois qu'en règle générale, si on trouve un trait commun à la fois à H. sapiens et aux chimpanzees ou aux bonobos, il s'agit d'un trait ancestral. Moi en fait j'ai appris que les gorilles métabolisent l'alcool d'un paléoanthropologue qui intervenait sur France Cu... Je me souviens pas de son nom.
Historically informed brewing projects, of course! This is all in the interests of research.
September 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Historically informed brewing projects, of course! This is all in the interests of research.
I have often wondered what it tastes like too. And date wine even more so.
September 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I have often wondered what it tastes like too. And date wine even more so.
Unfortunately Tor browser didn't help with listening to the radio. I can livestream, but I cannot go & listen to programs that have already been broadcasted, which I used to be able to do so until they changed their policy last month. Suspect Tor still shows up as being outside the UK.
September 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Unfortunately Tor browser didn't help with listening to the radio. I can livestream, but I cannot go & listen to programs that have already been broadcasted, which I used to be able to do so until they changed their policy last month. Suspect Tor still shows up as being outside the UK.
The students I had read the former last year loved it & engaged with it intelligently. I'm also trying the latter this year (& the whole story of the Jewishness of the Lemba people is both fascinating & instructive & mind-blowing given standard assumptions about Jewish & Middle Eastern history).
September 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The students I had read the former last year loved it & engaged with it intelligently. I'm also trying the latter this year (& the whole story of the Jewishness of the Lemba people is both fascinating & instructive & mind-blowing given standard assumptions about Jewish & Middle Eastern history).
Thanks for the reminder about this book. Still need to read it!
A couple of other books in similar vein (you probably know them, but I post in case others are interested): Kim TallBear's *Native DNA* (2013) and Noah Tamarkin's *Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa* (2022).
A couple of other books in similar vein (you probably know them, but I post in case others are interested): Kim TallBear's *Native DNA* (2013) and Noah Tamarkin's *Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa* (2022).
September 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thanks for the reminder about this book. Still need to read it!
A couple of other books in similar vein (you probably know them, but I post in case others are interested): Kim TallBear's *Native DNA* (2013) and Noah Tamarkin's *Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa* (2022).
A couple of other books in similar vein (you probably know them, but I post in case others are interested): Kim TallBear's *Native DNA* (2013) and Noah Tamarkin's *Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa* (2022).
I will try and let you know. Incidentally, I still have no problems reading the BBC website using any conventional browser; occasionally it asks me to register for an account, but it's been doing that for years & I just dismiss it. But the radio (other than livestreaming) stopped working last month.
September 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I will try and let you know. Incidentally, I still have no problems reading the BBC website using any conventional browser; occasionally it asks me to register for an account, but it's been doing that for years & I just dismiss it. But the radio (other than livestreaming) stopped working last month.
Can you listen to BBC radio stations this way, do you know? Other than livestreaming them, I mean?
September 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Can you listen to BBC radio stations this way, do you know? Other than livestreaming them, I mean?
I hope they hold the line. And that we will be able to assist.
August 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I hope they hold the line. And that we will be able to assist.
"Big in Tashkent" may be the correct expression. And this also appears to mean that my private list of occurrences of "zangi" in the Shahnameh (generally as a simile for the darkness of night) has now been superseded. And look, thanks to you I didn't even need to go to Tashkent to discover this!
August 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"Big in Tashkent" may be the correct expression. And this also appears to mean that my private list of occurrences of "zangi" in the Shahnameh (generally as a simile for the darkness of night) has now been superseded. And look, thanks to you I didn't even need to go to Tashkent to discover this!
The trouble is, these days, where isn't falling apart? My children won't be going anywhere any time soon, but I do wonder whether there'll be anywhere worth them going in another decade, decade and a half's time.
August 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The trouble is, these days, where isn't falling apart? My children won't be going anywhere any time soon, but I do wonder whether there'll be anywhere worth them going in another decade, decade and a half's time.
Yes, I have this, good collection, thanks for thinking of me.
July 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Yes, I have this, good collection, thanks for thinking of me.