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''Who are the Asmat?''By: Elizabeth Haro,January 24, 2012Period: 1, 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 north of Australia in South Pacific Ocean.
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The traditional Asmat are on of the last hunter gather 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 traditional Asmat is painting the faces and body for both ceremony and war.
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Traditional Asmat culture is truly an awesome culture because they have piercing at their faces and body, and because they wear feathers on top of their head.
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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 the one of earth's last traditional hunter gatherer cultures. The modern
world is talking over the Asmat.
Modern World
Asmat Cultures