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Keep The River On Your Right -Tobias Schneebaum Throughout the book Keep The River On Your Right there appeared to be many differences between American culture and that of the Akarama; however, when more closely examined it can be seen that what seem to be differences, actually serve the same purpose. The Akarama people live and breathe to hunt and laugh. In all of Tobias’ notes he recalled the most how they laughed at all things, even the first time he stumbled across these naked smiling faces. Furthermore, when the author finally felt like a part of the tribe and they had accepted him is when they gave him is own bow and arrows and took him to hunt with them. Also, one sign of success in the tribe was to be well known hunter. Although the Akarama were known to be a cannibalistic tribe, this was not the premise of their society to hunt and only eat people, for the first seven months that Tobias was in the area he never saw one account of this. When comparing these premises to American culture, laughter and food is not too far off the mark. In