Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xxv, 158 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "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

1. Living out

Uniform title

1. Living out

Subject

1. Schneebaum, Tobias
2. Schneebaum, Tobias
3. Schneebaum, Tobias, 1921-2005
4. Ethnologists > United States > Biography
5. Gay men > United States > Biography
6. Asmat (Indonesian people)
7. 73.06 ethnography
8. Ethnologists
9. Gay men
10. Homosexueller
11. Etnografie
12. Asmat
13. Ethnologues > États-Unis
14. Homosexuels > États-Unis
15. Asmat (peuple d'Indonésie) > Nouvelle-Guinée (île)
16. United States
17. Neuguinea
18. USA
19. Juden

Genre/Form

1. collective biographies.
2. autobiographies (literary works)
3. Biographies
4. Autobiographies
5. Autobiographies.
6. Biographies.

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.