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Where the Spirits Dwell: An Odyssey in the Jungle of New Guinea

Where the Spirits Dwell: An Odyssey in the Jungle of New Guinea more books like this

by Tobias Schneebaum

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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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Wild Man

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by Tobias Schneebaum

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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 ...

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Keep the River on Your Right

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by Tobias Schneebaum

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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 ...

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Secret Places: My Life in New York and New Guinea

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by Tobias Schneebaum

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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.

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Where the Spirits Dwell: An Odyssey in the New Guinea Jungle more books like this

by Tobias Schneebaum

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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.

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Wild Man: A Seaver Book

Wild Man: A Seaver Book more books like this

by Tobias Schneebaum

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Embodied Spirits: Ritual Carvings of the Asmat more books like this

by Peter Fetchko (Designer), Crosier Asmat Museum, Tobias Schneebaum

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Asmat Images from the Collection of the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress: Text, Photographs, and Drawings = Gambaran Asmat, Dari Koleksi Museum Kebudayaan Dan Kemajuan more books like this

by Tobias Schneebaum

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La Demeure Des Esprits

by Tobias; Labau Schneebaum, Alain

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Keep the River on Your Right

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Binding: Softcover Publisher: Grove Press Date Published: 1994 ISBN-13: 9780802131331 ISBN: 0802131336

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Edition: First Edition Binding: Cloth Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicholson Date Published: 1988

Description: Fair in Fair jacket. Ex-Library Usual ex-lib markings. read more

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Jungle Journey more books like this

by Miller, Mary Britton. (Illustrated By Tobias Schneebaum). other copies of this book

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Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Pantheon. Date Published: 1959

Description: Octavo, lemon boards with black-green titling to spine and illustration of a monkey on a branch to top board. An ex-library copy with stamps. Removed labels to rear endpapers and dustwrapper blurb from inner flap pasted to front pastedown. Label to heel of spine. Textblock is clean. read more

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ISBN-13: 9780854490615 ISBN: 0854490612

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Asmat Images From the Collection of the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress: Text, Photographs and Drawings

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Binding: Paperback Publisher: Copies available from Crosier Mission Date Published: 1985 ISBN-13: 9780918728593 ISBN: 0918728592

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by Miller, Mary Britton (Verse) & Schneebaum, Tobias (Illustrations). other copies of this book

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Binding: hardcover

Description: With striking illustrations on every page, printed in blue, green & black spot colors. [33]pp. Slim 8vo, yellow pictorial cloth, edgeworn d.w. New York: Pantheon, 1959. First edition. A fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. An unusual, true story of young Tobias who, without a compass or a gun, went all alone into the jungles of Peru. Told in verse by Miller, and illustrated by Tobias himself. read more

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The Girl in the Abstract Bed used book

The Girl in the Abstract Bed

by Bourjaily, Vance; Tobias Schneebaum other copies of this book

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Edition: First Edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: (Tiber Press. ) Date Published: 1954

Description: Illustrated by Schneebaum. Very Good with no dust jacket. We fit archival quality clear acrylic covers for additional protection whenever possible.; Color Illustrations; Folio 13"-23" tal; 13 pages; (Tiber Press. ) text by Bourjaily, Vance. The Girl in The Abstract Bed. New York, (1954). #112/1500. Illus. By Tobias Schneebaum. Folio, orig. Pictorial stiff red wrappers portfolio. With 13 color plates mounted on printed flexible bds. Title & mount bds. Mounting boards are toned, a few plates ... read more

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The Girl in the Abstract Bed

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Edition: First Binding: paperback Publisher: Tiber Press Date Published: 1954

Description: Schneebaum. Fine. 17 watercolor and silk screen prints by Schneebaum created for the work written by Bourjaily (no text included included ). Printed on thick stock in various sizes, approximately 11 x 15 inches, loose in an original blue card portfolio silk-screened in white and brown. (N.Y. : Tiber Press, 1954). This portfolio contains working and nearly finished original watercolor plates for the book that would be published by the Tiber Press in an edition of 1558 (1500 regular and 58 ... read more

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Where the Spirit Dwell an Odyssey in the Jungle of New Guinea

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Edition: First. Binding: Hardcover. Publisher: Grove Press Date Published: 1988

Description: Photo Illustrated. Very Good / Very Good Dj. A Sexual History Of The Headhunters In New Guinea. read more

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