WHY GO ON A TUESDAY? - Wilson, Carter
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WHY GO ON A TUEDAY? "It is dangerous traveling back," says the poet Pablo Neruda, "because suddenly the past becomes a prison." But what if return to a place of discovery and contentment many years ago could serve to pull you back up into life? Prominent anthropologist Maryanne Fort sets out to revisit the Mexican village where she and her husband first began fieldwork 40 years ago. In the crystal air of highland Chiapas she rediscovers old friends, Mayan-speakers and gringos alike, who are warmer to her than are her own skeptical offspring at home. Especially important is reconnecting with…mehr

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WHY GO ON A TUEDAY? "It is dangerous traveling back," says the poet Pablo Neruda, "because suddenly the past becomes a prison." But what if return to a place of discovery and contentment many years ago could serve to pull you back up into life? Prominent anthropologist Maryanne Fort sets out to revisit the Mexican village where she and her husband first began fieldwork 40 years ago. In the crystal air of highland Chiapas she rediscovers old friends, Mayan-speakers and gringos alike, who are warmer to her than are her own skeptical offspring at home. Especially important is reconnecting with longtime pal photographer Janice Metz, who fled the U.S. in the Red Scare of the 1950s. Acerbic and wise, Janice is also working her way forward in the new territory of widowhood, having lost her "sweetie" of 40 years, the artist Lois Shapiro. Other encounters with people from long ago prove more troubling, especially when their moth-eaten gossip threatens Maryanne's idealized picture of her late husband.
Autorenporträt
Carter Wilson is the author of six novels, a children's story, and two earlier books of ethnographic nonfiction. As a young man he lived in Mayan communities in southern Mexico and wrote and produced a documentary film called "Appeals to Santiago" about an eight-day Mayan religious festival, "Appeals to Santiago" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKG94SRJtg4). Later he studied Quechua people's use of coca leaf in Peru on a grant from the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse. His children's novel, On Firm Ice, is about Netsilik Inuit people of Canada, Treasures On Earth, a fictional account of the discovery of Machu Picchu in Peru seen through the eyes of a photographer who is also in the midst of discovering he is gay. Wilson's first novel, Crazy February, has been in print 59 years. He wrote the narration for two Oscar-winning documentaries, "The Times of Harvey Milk" (with Judith Coburn) and "Common Threads," and received the Ruth Benedict Prize from the gay section of the American Anthropology Association for his "Hidden in the Blood."