Contemporary tradition asmat culture, part 1
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Contemporary Tradition Asmat Culture, Part 1
"Who are the Asmat?"
By: Julian Gomezperiod: 6, Culture and GeographySource: Mr. Ruben Meza, 2012
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The Asmat are 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 traditional of the Asmat is the piercing 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 cool because they do interesting thing that the past ancestors have done.
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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.