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Contemporary Traditional Asmat Culture, part 1
"Who are the Asmat?"
By(Reyna Provencio, 1/24/12 period 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 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 pierceing 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 uniqe.
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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 earths last traditional hunter gatherer cultures. the modern
world is taking over the asmat.