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.

Secret Places: My Life in New York and New Guinea (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Schneebaum, Tobias

Professionals & Academics

University of Wisconsin Press

I have always lusted after the Wild Man of Borneo. Tobias Schneebaum relates his insights on culture, society and relationships between men in the far reaches of the Westerner's notion of the world, while simultaneously relating a journey into the self. An enlightened trail for anyone to explore. Wild Man by Tobias Schneebaum, part autobiographical journal, part social-historical novel, tracks Schneebaum's fascinating and almost epic life story from his earliest contemplations of homoerotic desire and his first exposure to what he would later term The Wild Man of Borneo to his travels through Borneo, Southeast Asia and beyond. The author offers his first hand experiences in an exposed and often almost awkwardly honest recounting of his travels, insights and relationships in the cultures and communities that he became so immediately a part of.

Wild Man

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

iUniverse, Inc.

Recounts the author's experiences living among primitive peoples in South America, India, Tibet, Africa, Borneo, New Guinea, and Southeast Asia

Literature & Fiction

VIKING

The author describes his experiences studying the Asmat people of the jungles of New Guinea and discusses the place of homosexuality in their culture

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

Religion & Spirituality

Grove Pr

In 1955, armed with a penknife and instructions to keep the river on his right, Brooklyn-born artist Tobias Schneebaum set off into the jungles of Peru in search of a tribe of cannibals. Forgoing all contact with civilization, he lived as a brother with the Akaramas –– shaving and painting his body, hunting with Stone Age weapons, sleeping in the warmth of the body-pile.

Keep the River on Your Right

History

Americas

GROVE PRESS

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.

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

A book about the cravings of the Asmat people of the Irian Jaya (now Papua) .

Embodied Spirits: Ritual Carvings of the Asmat. A Traveling Exhibition from the Gajdusek Collection of the Peabody Museum of Salem and the Crosier Asmat Museum Collection of Hastings, Nebraska

Peabody Essex Museum

Asmat Images from the Collection of the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress: Text, Photographs and Drawings [Jan 01, 1985] Schneebaum, Tobias ...

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

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Secret Places: My Life in New York and New Guinea (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)

Wild Man

Wild Man

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

Keep the River on Your Right

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

Keep the River on Your Right

Embodied Spirits: Ritual Carvings of the Asmat. A Traveling Exhibition from the Gajdusek Collection of the Peabody Museum of Salem and the Crosier Asmat Museum Collection of Hastings, Nebraska

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