There's a groundbreaking and very moving novel by Aesthetic Realism consultant and anthropologist Arnold Perey that everyone should know. It is Gwe: Young Man of New Guinea, subtitled "a novel against racism." And boy, is it.
Dr. Perey did field work in New Guinea and knows his subject. But it is not just the knowledge but the feeling that makes this book important. He writes of how he came to see that the people whose society and lives he was studying were deeply akin to him. What he writes shows the need by the world for the new understanding of ethics and aesthetics that is in Aesthetic Realism, the education founded in 1941 by Eli Siegel.
Gwe is also an exciting read, one that will have you turning pages in anticipation while meeting life in tropical highlands that can seem so different from middle America or middle Europe or middle other places, but which the author shows to be populated by individuals whose feelings, hopes, fears, daily annoyances, and daily pleasures and pains are as real as one's own.
