Tobias Snow Tree

Tobias Schneebaum (born March 25, 1922 in Manhattan , † September 20, 2005 ) was an American author , anthropologist and AIDS activist.

Life

Schneebaum studied anthropology at Stuyvesant High School and City College of New York , where he graduated in mathematics and arts in 1943. As an author, he wrote several books in his life. In 1947 he moved to Mexico for three years, where he worked as an artist and painted pictures. In 1955 he moved to Peru , where he lived with the Harakambut tribe for several months . In 1973 he made a trip to Papua , where he lived with the Asmat tribe . He wrote the book Keep the River on Your Right about his experiences in Peru . In 1999 he made a documentary entitled Keep the River on Your Right about his travels to Peru and Papua. He spent the last decades of his life as an artist in Greenwich Village , New York City . Schneebaum lived openly gay in New York City.

Bibliography (selection)

1969: Keep the River on Your Right
1979: Wild Man (Living Out: Gay & Lesbian Autobiographies)
1981: Asmat: Life with the Ancestors
1985: Asmat Images: The Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress
1989: Where the Spirits Dwell: An Odyssey in the Jungle of New Guinea
1989: People of the River, People of the Tree: Change & Continuity in Sepik & Asmat Art , (including authors)
1990: Embodied Spirits: Ritual Carvings of the Asmat
2000: Secret Places: My Life in New York & New Guinea

Web links

Individual evidence

^ New York Times: Tobias Schneebaum, Chronicler and Dining Partner of Cannibals, Dies

personal data
SURNAME	Snow tree, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American author and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 25, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Manhattan , New York City
DATE OF DEATH	September 20, 2005

[1] New York Times: Tobias Schneebaum, Chronicler and Dining Partner of Cannibals, Dies