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Thanks for the link! That will help my selection process. Otherwise it’s not very systematized, I go off of book reviews, recommendations from friends, and lots of perusing in used/new book stores.

She points out another thing, which is cultures with oral traditions instead of written. For instance, I’ve purchased a few compilations of oral histories and folklore from Native Alaskan peoples, which were translated by anthropologists. It provides a good opportunity to think about how knowledge is interpreted between cultures.

Eventually I’d like to create some kind of web app to track my progress.