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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
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The Asmat are an indigenous hunter 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 traditional of the Asmat is the piercing of the septum of the nose
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Another traditional of the Asmat is painting the faces and body for both ceremony and war
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Traditional Asmat culture is truly
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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