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Contemporary Traditional Asmat Culture, part 1"Who are the Asmat?"By Codey Ho, 1/24/12
Period 1, culture and geographySource: Mr. Ruben Meza, 2012.
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The Asmat are an indigenous hunter gatherer culture in west Papua, Indonesia.
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West Papua is about 1/2 of a very large island just north of Australia in the South Pacific.
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The traditional Asmat are one of the last hunter gatherer cultures in the world.
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One tradition of the Asmat is piercing of the septum of the nose.
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Another tradition of the Asmat is painting the faces and body for both ceremony and war.
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Traditional Asmat culture is truly amazing
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Sadly though, deforestation, colonization, and assimilation are deeply affecting the Asmat.
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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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Irreversibly, this is the ending of one earth's last traditional hunter gatherer cultures. The modern
world is taking over the Asmat.