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Secret places : my life in New York and New Guinea / Tobias Schneebaum.
Penn Museum Library GN21.S287 A3 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schneebaum, Tobias.
- Series:
- Living out
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schneebaum, Tobias.
- Ethnologists--United States--Biography.
- Ethnologists.
- Gay men--United States--Biography.
- Gay men.
- United States.
- Asmat (Indonesian people).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 158 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2000]
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1 The Origins of As-Atat 15
- 2 Art and the Carvings 29
- 3 Marriage 39
- 4 The Sorcerers 49
- 5 Walkabout 59
- 6 Change 73
- 7 Biwiripitsj 88
- 8 The Djuwus and the Ndamup 101
- 9 Ancestor Spirits 107
- 10 Tateh, ich vil der Fregen de fier Kashas 114
- 11 The Priest and the Pagans 122
- 12 Line 6 Juliet 133
- 13 Death 146
- 14 Evocations 156.
- ISBN:
- 0299169901
- OCLC:
- 43615233
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