On my last UCB library visit, I borrowed this book, expecting just to skim through it and find that it was limited to male-relevant content and being surpriset to be wrong, as I note below. So I lined it up to post after the last cluster of journal articles, expecting it to be a one-off interruption in the article flow. But when I sorted through the 100+ articles I had in my to-do folder and tagged them with themes so I could find thematic clusters (because that's more fun), I found I had a solid set of articles on Asian cultures. So the next month will follow that theme.
Some of the articles are that ultimate goal: scholarly work written by someone within the culture being studied. (The down side of this is that their bibliographies are often full of intriguing articles in languages I can't read.)
I've been experimenting with different ways to organize all my different projects so that I make progress on all of them without needing to spend a lot of time re-orienting myself at every shift. My current approach--which feels like it's working well--is to spend a week at a time on each project and rotate through them. (With occasional digressions due to deadlines.) So last week I wrote up ten articles which should last me until the next project rotation, posting around two per week. This week, being disrupted by holidays and local travel (and a podcast deadline) will be something of a week off from the rotation.
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