Why Go on a Tuesday?

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 w...