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Title:

Keep the river on your right : a modern cannibal tale / Next Wave Films presents ; Lifer Films production in association with Stolen Car Productions ; directed and produced by David Shapiro and Laurie Gwen Shapiro.

Publisher:

Documentary Eductional Resources,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

1 videocassette (93 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Asmat (Indonesian people)
Indians of South America--Peru.
Mashco Indians.
Cannibalism--Peru.
Schneebaum, Tobias.
Ethnologists--United States--Biography.
Gay men--United States--Biography.
Documentary films.
Biographical films.
Biographies.

Other Authors:

Shapiro, David. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83056890
Shapiro, Laurie Gwen. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97111908
Schneebaum, Tobias. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85008508
Next Wave Films. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001126999
Lifer Films (Firm) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002109896
Stolen Car Productions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002109897
Documentary Educational Resources (Firm) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50027886

Summary:

This film explores the life and work of 78-year-old Tobias Schneebaum, controversial artist and author as he revisits the Asmat, a remote tribe in New Guinea and the Amarakaire Indians in the Peruvian Amazon with whom, 45 years earlier, he participated in a raid that culminated in ritual cannibalism.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)81540122

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)