Secret places
Subtitle: my life in New York and New Guinea
By: Tobias Schneebaum.
Series: Living out
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Schneebaum, Tobias.; Ethnologists -- United States -- Biography.; Gay men -- United States -- Biography.; Asmat (Indonesian people)
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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.