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Contemporary Traditional Asmat Culture, part 1 " Who are the Asmat?" By: Brianna Clemente, January 31, 2012, Culture and Geography source: Mr. Ruben Meza
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Contemporary Traditional Asmat Culture, part 1
" Who are the Asmat?"
By: Brianna Clemente, January 31, 2012, Culture and Geography
source: Mr. Ruben Meza
The Asmat are an indigenous hunter gatherer culture in West Papua,
Indonesia.
West Papua is about 1/2 of a very large island just north of Australia in
the South Pacific Ocean.
The Traditional Asmat are one of the last hunter gatherer cultures in the world
One tradition of the Asmat is the piercing of the septum of the nose.
Another tradition of the Asmat is painting the faces and body for both ceremony and war.
Traditional Asmat culture is truly about becoming a strong hunter and being a strong man or women.
Sadly though, deforestation, colonization, and assimilation are deeply affecting the Asmat.
Irreversibly, this is the ending of one earth's last traditional hunter gather cultures.
Irreversibly, this is the ending of one earth's last traditional hunter gather cultures.
