Talk:Tobias Schneebaum

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Obituary at The Advocate magazine web site reports the following

''In 1955 ... At a Roman Catholic mission on the edge of the rain forest, he heard about the Arakmbut. (The tribe, whose name is also spelled Harakumbut, was previously known as the Amarakaire. In his memoir, Mr. Schneebaum calls it by a pseudonym, the Akaramas), the Times reported.''

''The Arakmbut, whose home was several days' journey into the jungle, hunted with bows, arrows and stone axes. No outsider, it was said, had ever returned from a trip there. To his relief, the Arakmbut welcomed him congenially.''

The location of the tribe in the Amazon is contrary to the information in the Wiki article, which puts Tobias Schneebaum in New Guinea, at a much later date, with a differently named tribe.

I changed the birth year from 1922 to 1921. I trust that the biography on this website is correct since he participated in the movie.

MadeInGermany 03:22, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

This part of the article contains false information:

"lived with the Harakumbut people, at the time called the Amarakaire, during which time he famously claimed to have participated in cannibalism (Later in the movie Keep the River on Your Right, it is discovered that the tribe hated this name as it actually means "cannibals")."

In the movie Keep The River on Your Right no such claim is made at any point; it is not claimed that "Amarakaire" means "cannibals", nor is it claimed that they "hated" this name. One of the Harakumbut -- a younger fellow -- says that "Amarakaire" was percieved as an insult and that "Amarakaire means "traitor", "criminal" and bad things like that". They also mention that they'd like to forget about the past ways of fighting with and having raids on those of neighboring tribes, but there is no mention that "Amarakaire" means cannibal.

From watching this movie you would not know that "Amarakaire" even means cannibals, if it indeed does mean that. So, I'm removing that parenthesis as it's not substantiated by the movie which it refers to.

DivisionByZer0 07:37, 14 October 2006 (UTC)