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Secret places : my life in New York and New Guinea

Title
Secret places : my life in New York and New Guinea / Tobias Schneebaum.
Author
Schneebaum, Tobias.
Publication
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2000], ©2000.

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xxv, 158 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  • "In the swamps of Asmat in West New Guinea, Tobias Schneebaum - traveler, writer, painter, explorer - finds the way of life that suits him best. Secret Places reels readers into a world of storytellers and sorcerers, cannibals and carvers, a place where Schneebaum discovers his soulmates and his own soul.".
  • "Looking back at a life of wild adventure, Schneebaum seeks in Secret Places to intertwine the varied strands of his experience, pondering the parallel universes of his experience as a gay Jewish New Yorker and his years among the Asmat. The result illuminates both worlds - as when he juxtaposes the Asmat celebration of the spirits of the dead with a New York City plagued by AIDS and its own sad spirits."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Living out
Uniform Title
Living out.
Subject
  • Schneebaum, Tobias
  • Ethnologists > United States > Biography
  • Gay men > United States > Biography
  • Asmat (Indonesian people)
ISBN
0299169901 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
00008602
OCLC
  • ocm43615233
  • SCSB-3971751
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries