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Comtemporary Traditional Asmat Culture,part1who are the Asmat
By jiawen xu,1/28/12,per4,culture and geographysource:Mr.Ruben Meza,2012
The Asmat are an indigenous hunter culture in West Papua,Indonesia
West Papua is about 1/2 of a very large island just north of Australia in the South Pacific
The traditional Asmat are one of the last hunter gatherer cultures in the world
One traditional of the Asmat is the piercing of the septum of the nose
Another traditional of the Asmat is painting the faces and body for both ceremony and war
Traditional Asmat culture is truly
Sadly though,deforestation,colonization,and assimilation are deeply affecting the Asmat
Irreversibly,this is the ending of one of earth's last traditional hunter gatherer cultures.The modern world is
taking over the Asmat
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