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Contemporary Traditional Asmat Culture, part 1"Who are the Asmat?"
By Amanda Parada, February 2,2012Period 8, Culture and Geography
Source: 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 of Australia in the South Pacific Ocean.
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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 the piercing of the septum of the nose
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Another Tradition of the Asmat is the painting the faces and body for both ceremony and war.
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Traditional Asmat culture is truly awesome.
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Sadly though, deforestation, colonization, and assmilation are deeply affecting the Asmat
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Irreversibly, this is the ending of one of the earth's last traditional hunter gatherer cultures.The
modern world is taking over the Asmat.