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MARCH 26, 2001

Keep the River on Your Right

While he lived with tribe called the Arakmbut in the remote jungles of Peru for several months in 1956, Tobias Schneebaum said he participated in a raid on a nearby village and later ate the flesh of the dead victims.

Schneebaum documented his experience in a book called "Keep the River on the Right," released in 1969. He is now the subject of a documentary film of the same name.

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Once, in the Jungle: Tobias Schneebaum Confronts His Memories of Going Native (The New York Times 3/25)
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Get the Book:
Keep the River on Your Right (Tobias Schneebaum. Grove Press)

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