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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]

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Description

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."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Living out

Uniform Title

Living out

Subject

Genre/Form

collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Biographies
Autobiographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The Origins of As-Atat -- Art and the Carvings -- Marriage -- The Sorcerers -- Walkabout -- Change -- Biwiripitsj -- The Djuwus and the Ndamup -- Ancestor Spirits -- Tateh, ich vil der Fregen de fier Kashas -- The Priest and the Pagans -- Line 6 Juliet -- Death -- Evocations.

ISBN

0299169901
9780299169909

LCCN

00008602

OCLC

ocm43615233
43615233
SCSB-1142181

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library