Reading the book “Go and Return” I was taken to a place that was described the way I remember camping in the jungles of Belize. From constantly chasing insects away from me to bathing in a stream, the village described in the book seemed very minimalist with only one place to sleep and one place to cook for each family. The people of the village lived off the land and each person played a role, when the men went into the woods and hunted and if they brought back an animal they shared it with the whole village, and this was expected. When two American anthropologists, Joanna and Margarita, decided to stay in this particular village, the dynamic changed. The book was narrated by Alicia, a teenager who described what the cultural norms were in her village. She talked about interactions and expectations and things, her perspective on relationships seemed to be constantly confused as to why Joanna and Margarita did what they did and most of the time she felt stupid. In this case I believe that Alicia's "stupid" essentially translates into being different. The two women studied and lived in the village for a year, when they first arrived they didn't feel like anyone owed them anything more than they had paid and upon returning they owed nothing to anyone. The village however felt that since they were strangers with many things they did not normally have access to, such as pearls, they should be generous and give much of what they had. Towards the end of the book, when Joanna and Margarita had been there for a while, they began to feel part of the village. At one point a couple of missionaries showed up to talk to the village about sanitation or something. During the missionaries' visit they had many things and suddenly Joanna and Margarita began to see strangers as the village once saw them