Abstract
From Denmark, from a distant world, formed by a Western academic view, Peter Hervik travelled far to find surprising facts about a community of Indian peoples, Maya speakers, and about himself. To read his account of that trip is like reading two, or more, books that weave together his views on a small town in the State of Yucatan in Mexico, and his discovery of the kind of anthropologist he wants to be. The interaction between these two discoveries opens up various dialogues with different interlocutors who are the core of his book. One is with the people he was trying to ‘know’, who through their close social interaction with him showed him clearly how wide of the mark are the views held about them by outsiders, including the abstract anthropological concepts that define them rigidly and deform what they are.
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