The Asmat background

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"Who are the Asmat?"

By Shu Guan, 01-31-2012, Period4, Culture and Geography

Source: Mr. Ruben Meza, 2012

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 traditional Asmat is the piercing of the septum of the nose.

Another traditionof the Asmat is painting the faces and body for both ceremony and war.

Traditional Asmat culture is truly gatherer cultures in the world.

Sadly though, deforestation, colonization, and assimilation are deeply affecting the Asmat.

Irreversibly, this is the ending of one earth's last traditional hunter gatherer cultures. The modern world is taking over the Asmat.