Part autobiographical journal, part social-historical novel, this book tracks Tobias Scheebaum's almost epic life story, from his youth through his life in Peru, Borneo and beyond. A young man from New York, Schneebaum "disappeared" in 1955 on the slopes of the Andes. He lived for more than a year among the remote Harakhambut people, discovering a ...
In this memoir, the painter Tobias Schneebaum recounts his unusual experience as an adopted member of the Amarakaire tribe who live in the Amazon, where he ventured as a Fulbright scholar in the 1960s. Though declared dead by the United States State Department, Schneebaum was actually living among this tribe of cannibals, even accompanying them in ...
In this biography, Schneebaum seeks to intertwine the varied strands of his experience, pondering his life as a gay Jewish New Yorker and his years amongst the Asmat. The result justaposes the Asmat celebration of the spirits of the dead and New York, plagued by AIDS, and its own sad spirits.
A unique journey into the culture of the Asmat of New Guinea, a jungle-dwelling people barely touched by modern civilization. Schneebaum's odyssey is a sensitive account of a vanishing society open to sexual relations between men. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.
Tobias Schneebaum here tells the remarkable story of his four years among the Asmat of New Guinea, a jungle-dwelling people rumored to have killed Michael Rockefeller. Instead of ferocious cannibals, Schneebaum found a regal, gentle people who freely accepted him and initiated him into a way of life no outsider had ever seen before.
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